New airport won't happen.
Too much invested at LHR for it to close.
Too expensive to build.
Too damaging to the environment to build.
No workforce living near.
Wont be liked by all the HQs that are in the west of London.
Yes Heathrow is full and potentially loosing out to European airports but so much more could be done here in the UK before we start covering our small country with yet more South East centric concrete.
Why can't London airways be encouraged to show an interest in the regions again with mini hubs being set up again (as LH does in Germany) at Birmingham and Manchester.
If BA needs new slots to expand into emerging markets why not offload some of the overcapacity (US flights for example) to the regions and release those slots for those new flights.
Another big problem that an earlier poster touched on was "What will all these aircraft at this new airport use as fuel in the future ?" Can we really risk such vast sums of money on a project and industry that may not exist soon ?
I for one am going to live in a cottage next to the sea, live on fish and home grown vegetables, use a wind turbine and batteries for power, old chippy oil in my LR Defender and shoes made out of recycled tyres !!
I don't really give a toss what you do
