Originally Posted by
garpal gumnut
You steal a sausage roll at Heathrow and get put in the slammer for a week. You design and open an obscenity of an airport such as this and people just discuss it. Oh to be back in Roman times where the galleys would have been crewed by these muppets.
Classic PPrune comment
Here's the Met Office blurb on their case study.
Is there anywhere else on the island to put an airport, though? Even this site required some significant landfill, the rest of the island is even lumpier.