Farnboroughh rob. Sadly which ever political party dare build a third runway at Heathrow will take a panning at the next general election. Sadly the self interest of power is taking presidence over common sense yet again in British politics.
It seems to me that the positioning of the third runway at Heathrow seems a little silly. The village of Simpson does not need to be demolished. But again sadly the wrong decision has been made. The perfect place for the third runway is where the hotels and car parks north of the current runway. But its much cheaper to put a cpo on a householder than it is to compensate busnises.
A fourth runway can go to the south of the surrent southern runway. But BA maintenance will have to go, as well as a new terminal to replace T4 as it will have to be knocked down, as well as cargo.
Maybe a better strategy for Heathrow at the moment would be to place minimum load factor and aircraft size limits. Currently we have very small aircraft such as BMI Embraers and DLH CRJs using Heathrow. Maybe a minimum size of 120 seats with an average load factor of 70% should be required to maintain a slot at Heathrow. That will stop airlines from using ghost flights to keep slots. Also why do pure cargo flights still operate into Heathrow. Surely gatwick and stan stead would be better destinations for the.
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