Christmas Chaos LGW
Pax boy, if you're so good a clearing up others messes why don't you apply your brilliance to avoiding them in the first place. In the medium/long term LHR will cost more to grow than building an island to the east. Infrastructure needs and environmental impact will have a much greater burden on the residents of W London - oh, and what do you do when it needs to keep expanding in 20-30 years time?
Go look at Istanbul or Dubai. - they have vision!
Having watched the Maplin sands debacle in the 70's, I don't expect that we will ever graduate from the make do an mend philosophy. Unfortunately, this makes London look like part of the third world to the rest of the international air travelling community.