Actually LCY is fog bound much more than LHR due to it's surroundings.
I know what you write makes good sense from LA but frankly come live in London for a bit, get to know the politics of the situation and you'll have your eyes opened.
Stansted on Sea has a nice ring to it?
What to do about Heathrow? Close it? Cut West London off from an airport where as South London has Gatwick and the East has City, Stansted and Southend? So from the M4 corridor, it's Crossrail from Reading all the way to the coast and beyond now is it?
Why would BA move? They could stay behind and make LHR what they've always wanted, a tailored monopoly. Let STAR go sailing in the North Sea, BA's clients are in West London alongwith the entire maintenance base.
OK so that won't work, for the strategy to work, you need to shut LHR. Ooops suddenly tens of thousands on the dole in West London. None of our Elite remembered that Cs, Ds and Es don't tend to commute 50+ miles to get to their jobson that kind of salary. Well at least Kensington and Richmond are jolly quiet and our masters can sit outside Starbucks listening to birdsong again.
London isn't short of runway capacity, not with SEN, LTN and STN around. Nor at STN is it short of terminal capacity as there's loads of room to expand into land rather than sea. London is short of politicians willing to tell people painful truths which is why we have the appaling Chris Huhne building windfarms everywhere.
Last edited by Skipness One Echo; 21st Nov 2011 at 16:37.