“Ministers are set to publicly signal support for a long-sought third runway at Heathrow, sign off on plans to bring the second strip at Gatwick into full-time use, and allow an increase in the capacity at Luton Airport”

by Swanbon

17 comments

  1. Plus the Stansted new terminal is just staring on site.    

  4. Good – we need significant infrastructure investment. Luton especially could use an expansion – it’s basically a glorified bus terminal…

  6. Finally jfc. It would nice to be a country that actually tried to grow its economy.

  7. I think it is fair to say that putting an airport in West London with runways running East-West was a huge planning error. Planes now fly right over the middle of London most of the day and night.

    They do need to expand LHR but they will have a huge fight on their hands and years of delays – they have already been talking about this for donkeys years.

  9. Gatwick literally needs it, it can bearly handle it’s current capacity.

  10. I was in Heathrow just before Christmas and overheard some staff members saying that runway 3 is happening for real

  13. This is completely the right approach. It struck me as odd that the previous governments were deciding which airport expansion to back, as if it could only be one or the other. Just let the two competing commercial owners of the airports go ahead as they wish – whoever ends up with the better infrastructure after expansion does better commercially and the UK ends up with more airport capacity.

  15. What I really want to see is the government tackling this bullshit of how it takes decades for any major infrastructure improvements to even begin. Haven’t they been talking about a Heathrow expansion, feels like my whole life and I’m in my 30s

    Come on now, I get this isn’t China and the government can just do whatever they want to whomever they want…but this is insane.

  16. This also says that they’re going to approve the Universal Studios theme park

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