Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Good parallel.
And, give or take a couple of zeroes on the end of the numbers, the reasons why a Thames Estuary airport isn't going to happen are the same as the reasons why CF International won't either.
Not a couple of zeroes - I'll accept one zero though.
Another good parallel.
With 70 years of hindsight, you wouldn't have built Heathrow where it is, with its east-west runways pointing directly towards London. But it's there, and that's one of the givens in the current airport expansion debate.
The difference is LHR has been a raging success in its lifetime - 74 million passengers. How can it keep growing is not really my debate. LBA has always had its hands tied due to its position and very poor airfield attributes. 50 years to reach 3 million passengers. This is how the two debates completely differ.
Clean sheets of paper are pretty rare nowadays.
Unless you're building a high speed rail link years behind the rest of Europe. That's why a Yorkshire airport is needed now not in another 20 years of treading water at Yeadon. Think future.