Originally Posted by Tainboe
Good heavens! It's only taken them about 20 years to do the right thing then. Allow another 10 years for planning enquiries, and we might even double the T5 gestation period.
Meanwhile, traffic will be moving to the vastly better non-BAA airports across the channel. Too little, too late.
Why would it be such a bad thing for traffic to move across the channel? Let Schiphol and Frankfurt deal with the noise and pollution; the last thing we in London need is yet more countryside disappearing beneath tonnes of concrete and tarmac. It's time to move the focus onto the quality of our airports, not the size.