Originally Posted by
canberra97
More like 90,000 if you take in every conceivable airport related job.
That sounds about right, and nobody would deny the beneficial effect those jobs have on the local economy.
But they aren't dependent on R3, of course. Heathrow isn't going to disappear, and even the owners seem to have given up lately on the disingenuous argument that "expand or die" are the only possible scenarios.