interestingly there is a growing amount of comment asking WHO is going to pay for this expansion (where ever it is) - lots of people thinking it the airlines should stump up up front if they want it....................
Indeed there are. People come up with all these grand schemes for airports miles away from London then bang on about high speed rail links, etc., etc., as if that’s all the infrastructure that would be needed. They fail to spell out who pays.
Back in the real world, it clearly won’t be the private sector, as a business case cannot be made for any of these.
It certainly won’t be the airlines, surely you know that they ALL want LHR expansion.
So who does that leave? Yes you’ve guessed it, the good old taxpayers.
didn't have much problem in Hong Kong terra forming space for a major airport...............
HKG isn’t comparable, it’s about as far from Hong Kong as LHR is from London - about 20 mi., not 100+mi. like some of these suggestions.