Reply to: Third runway at heathrow official

[ratewhore]

breaking news (excuse the pun).

...three women wearing red sashes hurled bricks at the doors of the Westminster building at 4am.

The bricks were wrapped in notes that read: "No third runway, the Suffra-jets are back," they said.

Suffra-jets - like it!!!

[MPwannadecentincome]

Rubbish - the tax will make people grumble about it. However, it won't make anyone fly less.

but it will put off people CONNECTING at heathrow - it will be cheaper to connect in paris, amsterdam, frankurt or dubai.

[tim123]

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 !!

I agree that they should stop pretending that they are carbon taxes but I don't agree that thay should drop them.

I don't think it unreasonable to have to pay a tax to fly somewhere, it's still a small fraction of the tax that I have to pay to drive somewhere.

tim

[TheFaQQer]

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 !!

Rubbish - the tax will make people grumble about it. However, it won't make anyone fly less.

[BrilloPad]

Anyone used Northolt? Meant to be very good.

I think they only handle private jets?

A friend of mine went through there in the good old days. He was a converts trader for a bank. brokers paid for the whole lot.

[bobhope]

Anyone used Northolt? Meant to be very good.

Heathrow is a hole. Just glad I don't have to use it very often any more. Admittedly, I always seemed to be going out of T2 (the worst)

The best thing you can say about Heathrow, is that it isn't Luton airport.

I still like LCY - you can land and be on DLR in under 10 minutes. It's a proper airport, not a shopping mall that just happens to have a terminal next to it.

[Liability]

There always are in the UK.

I can see the Poles already inbound

[BrilloPad]

very true - I also like the way they have fast tracked it to 2015 - not sure if they will be able to deliver it by then though...surely there will be legal hurdles?

There always are in the UK.

[Liability]

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 !!

very true - I also like the way they have fast tracked it to 2015 - not sure if they will be able to deliver it by then though...surely there will be legal hurdles?

[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 !!

[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]

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 !!

[tim123]

Larger landing fees for provincial airports.

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

tim

[HeliCraig]

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

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

[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