Why can't he just think about the amount of people who will loose Jobs and how hard it will be for those who mostly live Near Heathrow to travel across not just one side of London but that and Kent.
When I read response such as this it is little wonder that nothing ever gets done. Heathrow has unfortunately outgrown the site it occupies, not only that but excepting T5 (and to a lesser extent T4) then the place is a complete mess both on pax & airside which ever way one looks at it. Other than on historical reasoning and that greater opposition to expansion exists elsewhere, then the place should have been run down years ago. But politics go on & no one has had the bottle / power to take on the task ! Those that have 'head in the cloud' mentalities making statements such as that above do no one any good, and to every such argument there is on a human basis an equal & opposite argument against expansion. Basically the place is now land locked and there really is no practical & convenient solution. From a safety side mercifully there have been no major accidents, but is the place really much more safe than say Congohas ? On taking your heads out of the sand and taking a trip around Europe to say AMS,CDG, MAD to name but three and each one makes LHR central area seem like a cess pit. All have large sites located sufficiently far away from the major population centres and are a lesson to be learned from. Maplin was rejected too many years ago to remember and everyone has an opinion on STN expansion, so what now. Well I guess guys you all need to take a reality check & hope that the govt. has the bottle to build at a new remote site perhaps using the redundant labour force after the 'Olympic site construction folly' has run it's course. Failing this all you locals & LHR commuters will in any event find your jobs under threat when it finally dawns on airlines & pax alike that perhaps LHR is not actually worth bothering with.