Heathrow. Let's put the new runway somewhere crowded and with terrible transport links.
Anywhere really, so long as all the money gets spent in the south east.
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostI used to live under the flight path of an airport. I chose to do so and never complained even when the runway was extended.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostYou're making that one up.
There is London South End Airport though...
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Its all part of the plan....
Airstrip One - Formally called England. This term demonstrates Orwell's distain for American influence Europe. It seems that Oceania (America, England, South America, Australia) looks upon Britain as little more than an ‘airstrip’ ... a launching ground into the European theater of war. It appears that Orwell was predicting the minor role that England would play in the global politics of the future.
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Originally posted by VectraMan View Post5 if you include London Oxford Airport.
Surely the people of West London get no sleep anyway, or at least have learned to sleep through the noise/have gone deaf. So why does it matter if there's a third runway?
6 if you include London City
7 if you include London Manston Airport.
The island makes no sense, arrival and departure flows are too close to the UK airspace.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostYou are thinking of Northholt. But if you did not know that, AYCOTBAC?
HTH
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Originally posted by VectraMan View Post5 if you include London Oxford Airport.
Surely the people of West London get no sleep anyway, or at least have learned to sleep through the noise/have gone deaf. So why does it matter if there's a third runway?
Luton
Stansted
Southend
Gatwick
City
Oxford (hardly any scheduled flights at all, they try adding new flights all the time but all the operators go bust after a couple of flights)
Personally I would say the Boris Island is the best idea else expand Gatwick or even Stansted
Expanding Heathrow is just utter madness
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I used to live under the flight path of an airport. I chose to do so and never complained even when the runway was extended. Those near Heathrow chose to live near the airport so they should shut up or move. In fact I am looking to move near Heathrow.
Apart from Heathrow, the other options for expansion are no good for people living SW of London, they may as well fly from a local airport to a European hub rather than going to other so-called London airports.
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Originally posted by Chuck View PostIt's true, you do get used to the planes. However it will also bring hundreds of thousands of new people closer to a flight path.
Perhaps the worst thing of all though is all those planes flying directly over the city. Who in their right mind, with terrorists looking to blow the infidels to pieces, would put more planes over a population centre?
I'm amazed it hasn't happened already. One man, with a SAM on his shoulder, as a fully loaded 747 takes off to the East, could wipe out thousands.
agree its madness.
they should build a properly designed HUB airport somewhere sensible.
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