Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
Could we move the "shall we put a new runway at Heathrow or Gatwick" discussion into a separate thread please and leave this thread for matters of a purely Gatwick nature ?
Well yes, pretty well all the arguments have been rehashed ad nauseam in the various airport expansion threads.
But before we quit, I'd love to understand the basis of this argument:
Originally Posted by
Vokes55
A new runway at Gatwick could double capacity overnight, an extra 40million per year. A third runway at Heathrow is going to increase capacity by 15-20million max
A runway is a runway. Wherever you stick it, it's going to be able to accommodate roughly the same amount of traffic.
So how does a new runway at Gatwick have double the capacity of one at Heathrow? If that were actually the case, the Airports Commission's decision ought to have been a no-brainer.