The right decsion but what a joke
A 2025 service date means that it has taken the UK 40 years to decide where to build a new runway . A decision a 15 year old with an inerest in a viation could have taken inside five minutes.
All major countries (and by 2025 we might not be one of these anymore) so lets say all global cities need global connectivity and that means a hub or focus airport. As we are a small country geography and population wise with one very large city it is economic for the main airport to provide not just a lot of direct services but support its economy and the viability of those services with transit passengers as LHR has done for years.
So, expand LHR and you keep this extremely successful model and LHR and London in the top 5 of global cities/airports or expand Gatwick and get two airports that might as well be 200 miles apart given the M25 neither of which are fit for purpose because they are both too small.
How hard is that ? An example of our horribly broken political process that serves our country so badly in so many ways