What the "lets build an airport in the middle of the North Sea" brigade overlook (apart from the fact that airlines would not use it and the investment would be wasted - look at Montreal Mirabel as an example of a middle-of-nowhere fiasco) is that the transport and communications links for road and rail to London would be so lengthened they would consume/blight far more land than extending an existing airport and its links ever would.
Last edited by WHBM; 23rd Jun 2003 at 04:22.