Hi Jericho
I did indeed suggest that there may well be mid air over London,
a cynical comment made myself when Stansted expansion was announced and based on the undoubted "commercial" pressures that are forcing more and more traffic into the South East.......
Surely you would concede that Stansted could have been put anywhere in the UK, 80% of passengers are being sucked in from other regions, so why on earth add to the inherent pressures by positioning the airport in the South East ?
..that however is NOT the fault of NATS or the hard pressed air traffic cntrollers who simply have to put up with what is thrown at them. I certainly was not critical of any LATCC controller.
I am not against expansion in the South East, I do feel that we should have had one major airport with 4 runways in one place, with room for further expansion.
Instead of one major airport like Eg Frankfurt we now have a wide range of airports dispersed in a relativly small area, with crossing traffic at or about 8000-20,000 ft, that is a dangerous mix....!
My point was made in terms of Government Ministers who gleefully make these decisions who will then ring there hands and blame somebody else if something were to go wrong....
If you are going to quote me please do quote the full facts and not selected items in isolation......
touche....