Heathrow 3rd runway: yay or nay

[Saul Goodman]

London should have at least one more airport. Two more would be better.

 

[hash tag]

I can already picture the residents of Fleet, Farnborough and Aldershot up in arms at the thought of TUI or Ryanair setting up shop there on top of the private jets.

I don't know that the lovely residents of Farnborough or Aldershot would be listened to very much. Unlike somewhere like Camberley which is rather more influential. Farnborough has a nearby station as does Fleet, Frimley, Ash Vale. I'm sure something could be worked out
The RAE is a big site with room for expansion. If you must expand it, take some of the army land, job done. Also, if space is limited use imagination constructing the new hub. Sadly, last time I was in Farnborough the shopping centre looked on its last legs.
I'm sure the airport would create many job opportunities in an area that could do with them.

 

[magneze]

I still don't buy that another runway would impact growth all that much. A few more tourists and some more parcels. Big whoop.

 

[skyscraper101]

London should have at least one more airport. Two more would be better.

Come the revolution there’ll be the option to bulldoze Buck house and turn The Mall into a runway.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Southend Airport is branded "London Southend" too.

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[Bahnhof Strasse]

They should fix travel between Gatwick and Heathrow and build the railway into Heathrow from the south if they do this

They keep talking about destroying Staines Moor to do just this, which would be a shame, a bit of actual raw nature next to Heathrow and the M25

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Have often thought that they could use Northolt for domestic and short haul routes, an underground maglev from LHR would take less than 5 minutes and probably only cost around 30 trillion pounds per metre.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I was surprised to recently discover Shoreham Airport was re-branded to Brighton City Airport a few years back, of course everyone locally still refer to it by its former name.

I think they missed a trick by not re-branding it as Brighton London Airport.

 

[Cerv]

Have often thought that they could use Northolt for domestic and short haul routes, an underground maglev from LHR would take less than 5 minutes and probably only cost around 30 trillion pounds per metre.

they do, but only for the very rich

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[Maggot]

compared to destroying the Thames estuary

it is reasonably sensible

Compared to destroying the planet, it is not sensible.

 

[PR1Berske]

My heart sank when I heard that another Heathrow runway was back on the cards. Seems anything can now be excused under the label "economic growth".

 

[T & P]

I was surprised to recently discover Shoreham Airport was re-branded to Brighton City Airport a few years back, of course everyone locally still refer to it by its former name.

I think they missed a trick by not re-branding it as Brighton London Airport.

They'd be better off paying Gatwick's owners to rebrand LGW as Brighton Gatwick Airport