Frank
At present, Stansted, with just one rwy is haemorrhaging pax and carriers. There is no justification for more rwys.
Again you miss the point: it's a chronic shortage of hub capacity that is the problem, not capacity in general.
You really don't get it sometimes, Frank.
If Stansted was given six runways and Heathrow was closed, then STN would become the
de-facto UK hub. You either move your operations to the STN International Hub, or you go to AMS or CDG instead. No questions asked.
STN
would work as an alternative to LHR. The question is, would Silver-Boris Thames airport be better? For many reasons, yes it would.
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