Originally Posted by
Prophead
As I have said before there is more to Heathrow
It is in my opinion where people want to fly to/from and with the transport links currently being built, should be allowed to continue to grow. If it means the loss of one small village so be it. I doubt that many of the people that are against the third runway would actually want to see the airport close completely.
Possibly where people going to/from London want to fly from. Anyone else that needs to use it as a transit hub will avoid it like the plague, often paying more simply to do so. Even fancy new terminals like number 5 cannot solve Heathrow's problems. Namely that it is running far too close to capacity and all the problems you can associate with that. As Boris has already said even a third runway cannot solve this problem, particularly in the medium/long term.