What is the Uxbridge effect?
The Uxbridge effect is very simple: Boris is Conservative parliamentary candidate there, he knows very well that a large proportion of his future electorate works on the airport, and continuing to advocate its closure is not doing himself any favours electorally.
Accessibility will sort itself out,as will the airline slot system.If you build it,they will come.
The case of Montreal-Mirabel says otherwise.
It is clearly not the case, otherwise the concept of closing Heathrow would never have surfaced. It is patently obvious that pax, premium pax in particular, want to use LHR, and therefore so do the carriers.
If you call it "Heathrow East" most customers won't notice the difference.
If you call what "Heathrow East"?
The reference to broadcasts from London simply refers to the background aircraft noise,not the whining of politicians.
If aircraft noise under the flightpath and in London was really as bad as is implied, it would be reflected in property prices.
It is not that bad now (ask any flightpath resident who is old enough to remember the really noisy jets of the 1960s/1970s) and certainly won't be by the time any new rwy opens.