Third runway at heathrow official

[TheFaQQer]

We have enough airports and enough runways. Stabilisation or even reduction of flights should be the aim. Aircraft are getting bigger anyway so this should take up a lot of the extra passenger requirements.

Apart from the new, smaller Boeing, of course.

[TheFaQQer]

Larger landing fees for provincial airports.

Surely that argument only holds water if BAA controlled all the airports? AFAIK, Manchester sets it's own landing fees because it's nothing to do with BAA.

[TheFaQQer]

Both Gatwick and Heathrow are suffering lower passenger numbers.

So why are we expanding them???

So that the airport market remains competitive.

Traffic is on the increase through CDG and Schipol, because they can get more flights through there these days. LHR cannot possibly keep up without having somewhere else for the planes to land and take off.

More runways = more landing slots = more competition = less delays = better for the consumer + better for the traveller

[Flashman]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ship-year.html

Come on, stop moaning. How else are the 250,000 new British passport holders a year going to get to Britain?

With a population growing this fast the question is - Where's Heathrows 4th runway going to be built?

[zara_backdog]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ship-year.html

Come on, stop moaning. How else are the 250,000 new British passport holders a year going to get to Britain?

With a population growing this fast the question is - Where's Heathrows 4th runway going to be built?

Ahh - they will be sent to Birmingham instead when they extend the BHX runway

[HeliCraig]

Ahh - they will be sent to Birmingham instead when they extend the BHX runway

"London Birmingham" - hmm, has a nice ring to it.

[tim123]

Larger landing fees for provincial airports.

Scotland aside, they don't own the regional airports.

tim

[Cyberman]

Apparently. Heathrow will create 20% of the CO2 emissions of the whole of the UK after this expansion and we will have an extra 125,000 flights a year(342 extra flights per day). Makes sense doesn't it !!

[Liability]

it was a no brainer and it was going to go ahead. With the creation of 65k jobs, the influx of tourism, and obv the outward additional flights - wrapped with the current state of the economy - its a no brainer.

Go Heathrow Go!

[Cyberman]

it was a no brainer and it was going to go ahead. With the creation of 65k jobs, the influx of tourism, and obv the outward additional flights - wrapped with the current state of the economy - its a no brainer.

Go Heathrow Go!

I go along with it as long as they now drop those 'dishonest' carbon taxes of 150 quid on long-haul and 45 quid short-haul, because they are now exposed as previously thought anyway, as an opportunistic stealth tax. This tax will deter people from using Heathrow, so there is a conflict here if HMG expect more passengers to use this airport !!