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No study required the future prosperity of the UK is more important. Where - not Boris island as too far east and it would create major problems for the airspace design. It needs to be west or North west of London with high speed rail link and once built close Heathrow but keep Gatwick and use the Heathrow site for new houses and businesses
It's not just the airport that will need to relocate. Have a drive round the Heathrow area and you will see numerous businesses from hotels to logistics that all rely on the proximity of the airport. We are talking about tens of thousands of jobs here.
If you did close LHR you would wouldn't need to build houses or offices as the local workforce would have been decimated and there would be lots of commercial property available. You would however need to build them around the new airport location for all those who need to relocate.
The area for the third runway is actually mostly wasteground apart from the small area of housing of which BAA own quite a lot.
Same argument as for Fantasy, oops sorry, Boris Island: apart from all the above, if it takes 50 years to
NOT get a third rwy at Heathrow, how many centuries would it take a whole new 4-rwy airport.
Also, in the intervening centuries, it will
still be necesary to expand Heathrow.
Also, which carriers would leave Heathrow for this proposed UK version of Montreal-Mirabel?
Time to wake up to the fact that replacement airport is not an option. That ship sailed in 1946.
Eagle Radio - News - Heathrow boss: PM 'showing leadership' on airport expansion
Showing leadership. ......oh my giddy Aunt.
She has turned onto a heading re severe turbulence!
Never mind extolling the positives this will simply allow the naysayers to reinforce opposition re ;
Monumental costs
Political fall out
Scottish MPs dictating England infastructure policy for their own ends.
...IMO the delay is exactly what T MAY wants.
Don't forget she inherited this and never wanted expansion.
With everything else on her plate Heathrow is 99 of 100 problems and this pushes it back AGAIN !
Shows how important perceptions are.
One could counter-argue that the grass has grown very long and the noise of the cans being kicked down the road has become so deafening that one cannot hear the planes taking off at Colnbrook: Heathrow (again), brexit/article 50, general election.......
Tendency to indecision inherited from Call-Me-Dave, bottling it tendency from dear old Gordon (remember him?).
And could we use slots for new and emerging business routes please BA ?
Not the job of BA since it was privatised, it's job is to maximise returns for shareholders. If the carrier has to serve the national interest rather than business interests, then it needs to be in public ownership.
It's the same with Las Vegas route, that is mostly leisure, these kind of flights should be at Gatwick leaving Lhr as business only.
No, flights should be at Heathrow, capacity problems prevent this. Nothing to do with business v. leisure.