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Skipness One Echo
Back to square one. That thing we’ve done for the last 50 years?
It would just be yet another rerun of the same old arguements yet again, there’s nothing really fresh or new here. Our politics is paralysed as no one leads. I’d rather see the wrong decision made than none, even if that means building out a Gatwick that not one airline has asked for.
As far as I am aware, not one airline has asked for the current LHR scheme (i.e. one which would lead to increased charges).
Frankly, LHR are painted into a corner (partly of their own making) and it is difficult to see a way out. If that leads to an emergency expansion of LGW - which the government now accepts delivers a greater financial return for UK plc. - then that's not a bad outcome IMO.