HS2 is a done deal. There is already enabling works happening, it'll probably be completed long before the third runway gets started. But yes, bloody stupid its not stopping at Birmingham International, though connecting won't be hard - not that it is at the moment. Birmingham is a shite airport mind.
Heathrow 3rd runway: yay or nay
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Northumbrian
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Well the Heathrow Runway will get the go ahead because of special interest groups working for its passage and construction behind the scenes. Perhaps the £7bn a year aviation fuel subsidy given in duty free aviation fuel can be examined again. Because that is a pretty sum to be giving away to cheapen the holidays of the lucky few who can still afford them in Austerity Britain.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
The only people to benefit from increased capacity are wealthy frequent flyers: Heathrow expansion to mainly benefit wealthy frequent fliers, research finds
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Seems Boris is in Afghanistan. Clearly some vital, post-Brexit trade deal on skag.
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
I suppose it's too much to hope that he stays there.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Most flying is done for commercial rather than leisure purposes IIRC.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It won't directly affect me either way, living a couple of hundred miles away. But to me the whole point is to reduce emissions and therefore reduce flight volumes. That would obviate the need for another runway/vanity project for the south east at the expense of investment in transport infrastructure in the rest of the country.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Not true. It's about 30% of Heathrow passengers, and only about 12% of total UK flights.
2hats
Dust.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
A bit like the probably apocryphal story, about the American tourist who wondered why they had built Windsor Castle so near to the airport.
Pretty sure it’s pretty much all for commercial purposes, hardly any of the pilots are volunteers.
Alex
gosub
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Don't forget the hobbiests who bring in the odd nick nak.. What with cargo not counting either
gosub
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No definitely need a bulldozer in the mix
A People's Lottery for who gets to drive it.
gosub
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Fuck that, any old Afghan 'll do, just get on with it
2hats
Dust.
Of course: he’s gone to stop the construction of a third runway for Kabul. Easy mistake to make.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
cupid_stunt
Where's the bloody sun?
It's a yay again.
www.theguardian.com
Top UK court overturns block on Heathrow's third runway
Earlier ruling said expansion plan was illegal as government had not considered its climate commitments
gosub
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It's a yay again.
Top UK court overturns block on Heathrow's third runway
Earlier ruling said expansion plan was illegal as government had not considered its climate commitments
Its also utterly unviable if there is no cabotage agreement with the EU
They can apply for planning permissio for a new runway as much as they want, but there are plenty of financiial reasons why they're unlikely to be building it/expanding Heathrow any time soon.
According to the usually knowledgeable Nils Pratley (Guardian Financial oolumnist) anyway ...
Guardian headline said:
Nils Pratley said:
Climate change obligations (even ones signed up to by this far-from-green plus useless Goverment) would directly contradict any plans by Heathrow for such figures ....
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DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Here we go again.....Reeves wants expansion everywhere. In the 9 years since this thread started it makes even less sense. Climate change is here.
Rachel Reeves to back Heathrow third runway in bid for economic growth
Government could back much-delayed plan for third runway at Heathrow, as well as expansion of Gatwick and Luton airports
www.independent.co.uk
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Never mind runways, what Heathrow needs is more jet bridges. I got off an overnight BA flight yesterday and had to be shuttled to the terminal on a bus like some second rate budget airline, at their main hub no less. Nothing quite says welcome to Britain like standing on a freezing bus on a dark January morning, then arriving at T5 to find the escalator out of order. Load of bollocks.
skyscraper101
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More plane capacity means more planes and more tax. Not to mention increased air freight and it's associated logistics. Frankfurt, Schiphol and Paris have better capacity IIRC.
kalmatthew
Lurker Extrodinaire
So basically the service you'd expect from BA...
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Books, not bombs
means more tourists coming to UK
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