with regard to the current government's playground attitude to transport, ie, train good, plane bad it's not surprising that the minister is not interested. Given that aviation is a net contributor to the tax payer as opposed to the opposite with railways, it shows how stupid this current viewpoint is.
Aviation is a global business, the UK's economy is a global business and if we carry on discouraging people from visiting the UK, investing in the UK, or even simply transiting the UK, surely even a minister of Villiers' educational credentials will eventually work out what will result.