greenonedave

Its obviously going to cost us lot of money as tax payers to go thro the democratic procedue as to weather Heathrow will expand, so I will ask how would you resolve the need for the expected growth in air travel in the London area ?

NotoriousREV

Flatten London. Provides loads of room for runways, reduces demand and gets rid of the cess pit that is our capital city.

FlightMan

Please explain why as tax payers, this will cost a lot of money. Are you talking about public enquiries and legal challenges into rumway 3?

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

I'd sack all the people that work there

FlightMan

darts_aint_sport

Build a decent, affordable, efficient high-speed rail alternative to reduce the amount of short-haul flights and ease the burden on airports.

Timwinner

iTrader: (3)

Expand a bit more, most the protests are NIMBY's. As above provide a decent travel alternative. And a lick of paint...... For christ sake its like being in 1986 when you go in there.

FlightMan

Agree with the NIMBY's. 95% of all noise complaints come from 20 people.
As for the paint, well Eastside is coming. So that'll make two, new, world class terminals. By 2020, the Heathrow we see now will be gone.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Personally, I'd expand other airports.

I'm of the opinion that too much air traffic is focused into too small an area; I mean does everyone flying to the UK HAVE to go via Heathrow?

I'm sure the question has been asked and people surveyed. So, are they using Heathrow because its the only choice operators give? Well operators should give a choice. Or is it the only place to transfer to another flight going elsewhere? Again; expand other airports so that there is an alternative "hub". Or is it because everyone wants to go to London? If that person was flying there to go to London city, then whats wrong with the other surroudning airports?...Barring them all being manky and too small with poor infrastructure links. Which leads me back to my opening opinion...invest in and expand in the other UK airports instead.

dpb

Any port in a storm ...

FlightMan

A common misconception and one I always hear.
The trouble is airlines want to use Heathrow. Whenever a slot becomes available, there is a bidding war for it. LGW is running at <80% capacity. Plenty of slots there for the likes of BA, VS, CX, UA, AA etc. They don't want to fly from other airports.

tanyatriangles

iTrader: (2)

So give them incentives to do so............a bit like the French government did in the 60's & 70's to companiesdwanting to locate in Paris: put your head office here, but put the manufacturing base elsewhere, here's a few million Francs to do so..............

Can't see UK plc doing that though, THEY concentrate everything on the SE, them moan like **** about overcrowding. Prats

FlightMan

So businessmen travelling to London should fly to MAN or BHX to relieve the overcrowding in the SE? And when LHR became London airport, there was no UK PLC, we'd just won WW2 and were dragging ourselves off our knees.

Every country has its congested areas. Not just the UK. It's normally where the wealth is.

Leslie

I still feel sorry for the people who live in Sipson.

Les