This plan looks very pretty - laughable but very attractive...
Handy for the good folks of Witney, though.
Incidentally, the home page of Pleiade's website features the following:
"In a consummate display of media-management and PR legerdemain the Department for Transport has ensured that, except for the BAA airports (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted), the only widely-publicised options for expansion were variants of the revived Thames estuary airport, with their attendant environmental, locational and economic deficiencies (in four re-incarnations: Maplin, Marinair, Cliffe and TCP/London Mayoral). The absurdity of these schemes has been long-demonstrated and clear to departments of state since the 1970's, but their value to government is to deflect attention from those viable, but politically contentious, options which may undermine the established monopoly of BAA. There is no prospect of a quiet life for either politicians or civil servants in the promotion of valuable and rational solutions to this issue: thus both groups tacitly share the interests of BAA—the monopoly supplier and creature of their own making—in further entrenching the ramshackle status quo."