If the answer is simple, in terms of the source of added value, can't a simple answer be provided? Anything subtle or complicated will either go over my head of be met with scepticism. From a simple pax perspective, and tax payer, a load sharing idea of shunting additional traffic elsewhere, eg STN, seems reasonable, however clearly LHR has advocates but why?
Edit. Let me expand on this...I live in Thurleigh which was a contender, before my time, for the third London airport as they called it. Foulness and Thurleigh missed out in favour of STN. What was the logic then for not expanding LHR but rather to start afresh somewhere else? Surely it was a capacity and infrastructure arguement and why doesn't the same logic hold now? But the 'hub' word seems to be a factor. So sitting here, with a memory capable of spanning 30 years, what is the argument now for expanding LHR when a different decision was taken in the 70's?
Last edited by Mr Optimistic; 30th Sep 2015 at 23:45.