Hey welcome back Silver! A bit of common ground?
Quote: "All of which is going to do absolutely nothing for the interlining international passenger into Europe.
"Welcome to Heathrow, sir. Your flight to Geneva leaves in 45 minutes - from Stanstead....." "
Agree 100%, but it isn't going to happen. Airlines wanting to use LHR, and find that they cannot, will not go to STN, trust me! At present they go to LGW or abroad (AMS).
An airport operating at half its capacity and contracting certainly cannot justify another rwy if the world's busiest international airport, and third busiest airport overall, is not allowed to expand. More bluff and bluster from Boris?
The "Mail Online" article posted by silverstrata revealed a subtle but significant change of emphasis of government policy:
“Mr Cameron last week repeated the position in the Coalition agreement of no Heathrow expansion until 2015. But he said MPs should not be 'blind' to the need to expand airport capacity”
Ha ha, Clegg still thinks it’s banned forever.
Doesn't “no expansion till 2015” mean that they should be building now if it’s needed in 3 years time?
Quote: "Murad Qureshi is obviously not bright enough to understand that if you close one airport down, and build a replacement elsewhere, you are not actually destroying any jobs."
Come on Silver, you can do better than that: of course 100,000 (on- airport) jobs plus many more in related and ancilliary industries would be lost and the area blighted. Surprisingly perhaps, it actually does mean jobs destroyed. The fact that similar jobs may or may not be created elsewhere is not the point.
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 22nd Jun 2012 at 21:19.