AndrewH52
Hmmmm. .. record stuck ?
Maybe best sit on the naughty chair with Mr Holland-Kaye
A lot has clearly happened since your last intervention, especially Mr Holland-Kaye's mathematical genius or lack of it. Fortunately Willie Walsh has come to the conclusion many of us grasped 18 months ago.
"While you were away...."
Inaccurate comment by Heathrow CEO,
A robust response by Manchester Airport CEO
.... and now "recognition" not only that Heathrow is not just looking for a subsidy from the taxpayer for surrounding infastructure......
BUT wait for it , an additional "Government Gaurantee" ( I think that sounds suspiciously like it might be us again), to cover the cost of a 3rd runway, a prohibitively expensive option, which thank goodness appears close to being replaced, if this article is accurate by "another" prohibitively expensive option.
Let's not mention hair-brained !
"The emerging view of airlines and of the City is that: the third runway is prohibitively expensive; it cannot be phased; that Heathrow airport would struggle to raise the £4.2 billion-£8.4 billion equity component; and in extremis it could require a government guarantee from HM Treasury."
Oh hang on isn't that the conclusion that us "armchair experts" came to as well ?
http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articl...extension-plan
All highly significant for the North of England as was made clear by the Manchester Airport spokesperson.