Personally I think that the daft Oxfordshire airport proposal has only been tabled so that people will stop objecting to another equally wretched proposal - for an enormous reservoir in the same area.
I'm surprised that no-one has challenged the 'Oxford AIAA' yet. There's very little flying at Brize nowadays, Abingdon no longer has any flying units, Upper Heyford has closes, Kidlington doesn't have anything like the traffic levels of 20 years ago - so why is there still a need for an AIAA?