Originally Posted by
Skipness One Echo
Heathrow is not a straightforward peice of private enterprise anymore than Hinckley Point is. There are obvious grey areas where HMG needs to support a business which is fudamental to national infrastructure and arguably should not have been sold off entirely in the way it was.
I agree, and the present argument is the case in point.
However, we are where we are and in any case the idea that it should be Heathrow at any cost is plainly not a winner. Increasing supply whilst raising prices is not likely to end well without public support.
It's a shame the pent up demand is not common knowledge, that would make it much easier to assess.