Originally Posted by
MANFOD
Many thanks Shed for that excellent write-up. Even those of us who were also present would be hard pressed to have remembered or heard all the details you have mentioned and reported them so clearly.
I like your own idea of asking Sir Humphrey to pay for the complex utilities work required before T3 could be expanded. To get some perspective, have we any idea just how expensive such a project would be? Are we talking millions, tens of millions, a hundred million or more?
MANFOD, the answer is, I'm afraid, 'it depends'. I once worked on a job which involved diverting a BT cable in a public footpath along perhaps a 300m length. it set us back £250k. If the road in question is indeed an IT and utilities 'highway' you are most likely looking at millions - it really depends what is there.
As for asking Sir Humphrey to pay for the work, provided you are advocating a similar level of direct financial support for all UK airports, then by all means go ahead!