1. Back, and build, Boris Island.
2. Move BA to Boris Island first. (But look how they are opening T2. Do not do a T5 again, please)
3. Run as many flights as you like in the first few years as the Omani/Saudi owners of Boris Island will give you cheap slots for the first few year.
Get Boris to ban Unite and Balpa from Boris Island. Make it a "Right to Work" Island
5. Flog off Thiefrow to HKG based developers who will pay more for it than it is worth as an airport. HKG developers know how to make money from property.
6. Do a deal with EZY to own, manage and run your short haul connectors to your long haul. Do not let BA management manage it.
How much is this really going to cost?
1) Build new airport in the sea. Easy peasy. Yes folks, under the approach to Schiphol. In the sea......
2) Close LHR airport.
3) Deal with the 000s of newly unemployed blue collar people that are not able to commute to another county. Hotels, B&Bs, taxi drivers, retaurants, you know, the "little people" who lack that Oxbridge classics degree who see the obvious we all miss.
4) Pay off HAL, Several £££££££££££££££££££s.
5) Compensate BA for their maintenance base. The one they'll have to replicate all over again. In the sea. Several more of your ££££££££££££££££££s.
6) Likewise VS.
7) Build a new city that no one living nearby can live in as daddy lost his job when Boris closed the *
biggest employer in the area*.
8) Sell off the new LHR houses to people with better incomes so they can accumulate wealth off the back of a property bubble.
etc
Consider how the radius of LHR's catchment area runs all the way to Bristol whereas 50% of Fantasy Island is er....well populated by fish. On the wrong side of London, but fish makes the point better. Far from all those pesky businesses and the wealth creators of the M4 corridor.
No serious non partisan study is supporting this deluded folly. Unless we've discovered some gold to pay for it all? Have we discovered gold?
** In other news, the (quite enormous) budget deficit went up, yes got bigger, as in not smaller last month..... Right.....
btw the idea of an old Etonian elitist ,the "born to the purple" brigade
arbitrarilly banning union membership speaks volumes about you as a person and how you see people less fortunate. I won't begrudge the daylight robbery of TFL drivers being overpaid when I see just how grossly overpaid many of the people on those trains are. #b(w)ankers MPs etc etc.