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Roland Perry · September 4th 14, 04:29 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 11:09:39 on Thu, 4 Sep
2014, d remarked:
You still don't get it do you? Infrastructure needs to be *operated* as

well as built. Planes need servicing, fuelling, crewing and so on.

Without transit passengers, the number of flights at Heathrow (and thus

the revenue generated for the area) would be down by around a third. So

that's a third of both the direct and indirect workforce laid off.

Exactly. Thats all it is. A few airport/airline specific jobs whose benefit

to the country as a whole would be barely measurable.

A third of Heathrow's contribution to the economy is getting on for
£2BN.
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Roland Perry