On Nov 9, 11:03*am, wrote:

That doesn't surprise me. I've often wondered why a tiny little country
like the netherlands with its tinky winky little capital city needs such a
huge airport.

Not a big country but a fairly crowded one - similar in many ways to
the South East of England.

Neil

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 16:05:12 -0800 (PST), Mizter T
wrote:
On Nov 8, 7:52*pm, Bruce wrote:
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:54:06 +0000, The Other Mike
wrote:

Heathrow and the UK economy is being crippled by two runways, and the
night curfew.

If Heathrow served only passengers who were starting or completing
their journey in the UK, there would be masses of spare capacity.

The last statistics I saw were several years ago, but Heathrow had the
highest percentage of transfer passengers of any major European
airport. *70% of passengers were international travellers transferring
from one flight to another; only 30% were starting or completing their
journey in the UK.

Transfer passengers accounted for 35.4% of LHR passenger numbers in
2010:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/33e9utk


Thanks. A page of fascinating facts. ;-)


I don't think it's ever been much higher than that.


My ex-BAA source says it has, but he thinks it was some years back. e
is going to check.

On Nov 7, 11:54*pm, The Other Mike
wrote:

Heathrow and the UK economy is being crippled by two runways, and the
night curfew.

That the movements have flatlined at saturation point given that
bigger aircraft need bigger gaps on approach) for the last 10 years
while f*ck all is done to build a third runway is a disgrace.

1300 aircraft a day, over 18 hours operation per day is one movement
EVERY 72 SECONDS

Like I said, the reason is safety. *If Heathrow had been in a tin pot
nation in the Far East or Africa or South America then the locals
would have been wiped out by plane crashes decades ago.

The third runway should have been up and running well before now and
planning of a fourth well advanced. *If you don't like aircraft noise
then don't live anywhere near one!

The correct solution to this problem is to build a properly sized
airport in a location with room for 4-6 runways, where the approaches
do not overfly residential areas, and to build good connections to
ground transportation infrastructure. Then shift all of the traffic
from Heathrow to the new site, and shut down Heathrow.

It's time Heathrow went the way of Hong Kong Kai Tak or London Croydon
aerodrome.

Robin

In message
, at
02:12:09 on Thu, 10 Nov 2011, bob remarked:
The correct solution to this problem is to build a properly sized
airport in a location with room for 4-6 runways, where the approaches
do not overfly residential areas, and to build good connections to
ground transportation infrastructure. Then shift all of the traffic
from Heathrow to the new site, and shut down Heathrow.

Good luck finding a site. I wasn't easy when all they wanted was
London's third airport.

Although Borisport is in many ways Maplin v2.0
--
Roland Perry

On 10/11/2011 10:12, bob wrote:
On Nov 7, 11:54 pm, The Other
wrote:

Heathrow and the UK economy is being crippled by two runways, and the
night curfew.

That the movements have flatlined at saturation point given that
bigger aircraft need bigger gaps on approach) for the last 10 years
while f*ck all is done to build a third runway is a disgrace.

1300 aircraft a day, over 18 hours operation per day is one movement
EVERY 72 SECONDS

Like I said, the reason is safety. If Heathrow had been in a tin pot
nation in the Far East or Africa or South America then the locals
would have been wiped out by plane crashes decades ago.

The third runway should have been up and running well before now and
planning of a fourth well advanced. If you don't like aircraft noise
then don't live anywhere near one!

The correct solution to this problem is to build a properly sized
airport in a location with room for 4-6 runways, where the approaches
do not overfly residential areas, and to build good connections to
ground transportation infrastructure. Then shift all of the traffic
from Heathrow to the new site, and shut down Heathrow.

It's time Heathrow went the way of Hong Kong Kai Tak or London Croydon
aerodrome.


OK, where are you going to put it?


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We were about to embark at Dover, when (bob) came up to
me and whispered:

The correct solution to this problem is to build a properly
sized airport in a location with room for 4-6 runways, where the
approaches do not overfly residential areas, and to build good
connections to ground transportation infrastructure. Then shift
all of the traffic from Heathrow to the new site, and shut down
Heathrow.

London Maplin?

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