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Old 7th Nov 2016, 11:34
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Originally Posted by Walnut
I am also wondering why freight has to come into Lhr surely a new freight terminal at Lgw would allow it to connect to Europe through the channel tunnel without all the difficult trucking around the M25
70% of UK's air cargo goes through LHR.
95% of that goes on pax aircraft.
Only about 2.5k freighters operate through LHR and that's in the off-peak slots.

So the demand is at LHR and you can't force LHR's route network to LGW.
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