In some quarters 'Boris' is being suggested as a possible replacement for Hague
Could this mean DTVA being promoted as additional London runway???
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There's a funny thought!
They would have to stuff Boris in the House of Lords for that to happen.
They ain't going to kick some old duffer "upstairs" and risk a by-election to get Boris back in the Commons, because that would activate the UKIP bandwagon.
Also, a by-election in summer, very low turnout, very unpredictable result. It's too risky, it won't happen.
So how does "Lord Boris of the Thames Estuary in the Counties of Essex and Kent" sound............
No, it's the opposite! The lack of sufficient links to LHR is contributing to the decline of many "regional" airports, especially on the thinner routes as these have been squeezed out of LHR over the years. This is caused solely by insufficient rwy capacity at LHR. High APD levels do not help, and APD should be scrapped, but this process started before APD.
Well over twenty UK airports were linked to LHR in the early 1990s, now its just seven.
MME is, regretably, a classic case in point: its serious decline started when the BD link to LHR was axed.