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One thing London doesn't lack is capacity, Luton and Stansted all have plenty of room and Southend is coming on stream. Runway three at Heathrow would have been financed by the private sector as well.
Yes it does.
How many Regional turboprops opperate out of Heathrow?? Name them !!
This is the whole problem with London's airports. There is absolutely no point in flying international into Heathrow, if your regioal connection is from Luton or Gatwick !! You may as well fly into CDG or AMS and get an easier connection.
Thus Heathrow has slipped from being an international hub, to merely being a national hub, and is losing out on at least another 50% of traffic (and UK revenue). Even this month, I hubbed through AMS, because there were no easy connections from LHR.
LHR - crappy airport, crappy country - the two go hand in hand. If we want to be a World Class nation, we need a World Class aviation hub.
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