June 16th 16, 12:15 PM
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Kahn fares u-turn
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:38:47 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:29:53 on Thu, 16 Jun
2016, d remarked:
You want the state telling you where and when you can travel?
No, but I want the state to limit a destructive free-for-all. If some
vested
interest in roads was campaigning to build a new motorway do you think
anyone
would listen? Yet for some reason we're supposed to build a new runway
at
Heathrow to benefit whome exactly? Oh thats right, Heathrow Plc.
Not just the airport company, but the hundreds of thousands of auxiliary
workers and their employers.
Plus the customers (ie, the airlines and their customers). It would never
get through if the only proponent was HAL. What's driving it is all the
businesses that want better connections from Heathrow. But now that BA has
managed to acquire more slots than it can use, it's much less keen on
Heathrow expansion than it used to be.
Do you not find it the slightest bit odd that Heathrow only started
clamouring
for a 3rd runway after the owners were forced to sell Gatwick? Now isn't
that
strange.
And FWIW, Stansted was built as the overflow airport for London.
Apparently
that was future proofing air travel. Either they lied or they were stupid,
It was a genuine miscalculation
whether that was out of stupidity, or something else - take your pick
tim
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