But he's a POLITICIAN Skipness - this won't be decided by the aviation business - if it had we'd have concreted most of W London over years ago for runways
The issue is that here are enough people who are very very strongly against Heathrow expansion
Since we're not HK or Singapore there is due process here- and the antis have enough time and money to stretch the process over years & years. No politician will want to get bogged down in this - they want things to happen on quickly on their watch, not to spend decades in the courts and in front of Commissions of Enquiry
you can see how chary the Govt has been on the latest announcement - anything but supportive I'd say - they just wish it would go away (again)