Originally Posted by
daz211
I don't understand why the government can't just say give LHR. LGW and STN a new runway.
There wouldn't have been any point in Davies recommending that, which is why he didn't (or one of the reasons, at least).
None of the aforementioned airports would take the commercial risk of building a new runway if the possibility existed that their competitor(s) could too. Both Heathrow and Gatwick made that clear in their evidence to the Commission. Granted, they would argue that even it it wasn't true. But it is.