runway switch
Having lived down the road from LHR for many years this arguement over a third runway has been runnign for a long time and all local communites are against it. However, one thing that rarely gets a mention is the rebuilding of the runways to run from North to South. Also there is much space for another north south runway to the West of T5 if they did that. North/south take off and landing patterns would remove the flight paths from over the vast majority of London. Am not sure our Royal Family would appreciate having a runway in their back yard at windsor but then again neither to millions of west londoners. Is there any viable reason why this has not been considered?