Originally Posted by
wiggy
I don't buy the story about WW being shocked at the demoliation plans for one moment, but I accept he might not like the financial angle.
Just about everybody who has worked at BA since Waterside opened or who works there now knows that the HQ was in the firing line if a third runway was approved.
I can't believe for one moment WW wasn't aware of the fact...
My thoughts too, though the article does contain what it claims is a direct quote from WW:
"The first I saw of it was when the Airport Commission report came out and I saw a map and I thought, that looks very close to Waterside," Walsh said. "Then I discovered it actually went right through Waterside."
It smacks more of manufactured outrage, which is no real surprise given BA's ambiguous stance on Heathrow expansion.
But it's been bl**ding obvious to everyone else since the late 1940s that any additional runway(s) at Heathrow would be north of the A4.
