WHBM: Interesting figures to play with (might as well as I doubt whether I'll live to see it happen!)
If correct, 4bn for 2500m of runway plus bits seems toppy and taking two years more than the whole of WW2 to construct one airstrip seems downright laggardly.
That's a cool 1.6million quid per metre or 6666 per M3 of concrete laid.
BAA recently rejected a bid of 9bn for the company...now I understand, as with 15000m of runways (at LHR x 2/STN/LGW & SOU) they should be worth 24bn even without the rest of the airport land & buildings....
By the way, I see that China plans 42 new airports in the next 15 years. Now that's ambitious.
On a serious note, the dithering and no doubt related cost overruns that characterise major projects in this country (epitomised by the T5 planning inquiry, Nimrods,aircraft carriers etc) make one weep. It's just as well the French run Airbus.