RE: Heathrow should close!

that’s all very well for locals… But for non residents of London such as myself, who rely on LHR for transfers, any transfer of routes, shorthaul or otherwise to either LTN or STN is potentially a reason not to travel via London, and that little bit less money in the South East’s economy (not that it needs teh extra, mind…)

BA survive on transfer traffic at LHR, moving routes would be a severe blow for them, too.

Personally, I don’t have a problem with LHR and I think any attempt to move any, or all of it’s flights away would just result in meltdown in UK traffic. I mean, we can’t even build a highspeed West Coast Trainline (it’s currently only 20 Billion over budget, and three years behind schedule)… how the hell are we supposed to work the logisitcs of moving the infrastructure to a different site?

T5 is a welcome step towards modernisation at LHR, but runway capacity is what’s needed. And I’m not sure the third runway as proposed will help, as 09L/27R will still have to be crossed to reach it…