IT IS a big week for Heathrow Airport. Tomorrow, the Davies Commission, which was set up to recommend the best way to add extra air capacity to London and its environs, reports. London is desperately short of runways, and the choice has come down to adding a third runway at Heathrow, a second one at Gatwick, or perhaps some sort of fudge.
Many businesses and, I daresay, business travellers, would like to see the extra runway at Heathrow. Squeezing all those planes at the world’s third-busiest airport on to just two runways—half the number of Tokyo Heneda, the fourth-busiest—stretches passengers’ patience and drives up airlines’ fees horribly. The trouble is that Heathrow is, relatively speaking, close to the city it serves. And the prevailing wind direction means that the normal flight path takes planes right over the city. So expansion at Heathrow would be politically...Continue reading
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