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the target passenger base isnt tourists from across the UK, its business traffic for London and hub for onward connections. there's plenty of overall capacity, just not enough for this market going in to London. so northern airports are immediatly out of the running and Standsted isnt very...

i know, its just Marston is the sort of alternative suggestion that annoys me because its a distraction. there is little virtue to the site except it already has a strip of tarmac. you could find any bit of land in the south east within a mile from a motorway and railway and it would probably...

you wouldnt be concreating great swathes of Sussex, you'd build out Crawley and the already urbanised corridor up to Redhill/Reigate (which is in Surrey anyway). it would maybe mean doubling Crawley, a large amount by filling in gap to the airport, the M23 etc. this would probably be a really...

it would be better if that were the only measure. its not, and still objectively, the costs of infrastructure and additional time to get to Manston count heavily against it. its a poor idea, let it go :lol:

intersting point... so use to "impact" in negative sense at work doesnt occur to me it could be otherwise.

well there is one objective measure, the impact to people, which would be largly in favour of Gatwick as the number of people affected directly is a fraction, indirectly negligably smaller. green views dont count, they are against all air flight, even when on their way to enivromental...

they did. as well as Stanstead, Boris Island and Heathwick, linking Heathrow and Gatwick with an underground shuttle. Heathrow is the "simpliest" option on paper, sort of central for access from the rest of the country*, the one that the City likes (shortest time office to gate) and BA liked...

no infrastructure to get to and from it. you'd be looking at a brand new fast rail link or as spur off the current rail for a 1-1:30 hour plus journey time from London. and then dualing a number of roads to get any decent capacity into it. then building a town to house all the workers (one...

which could change with expansion. disappointing they haven't gone for the option to allow both Heathrow and Gatwick, or even allowing midlands airports to expand too. Gatwick can start earlier (not so much objections to fight through) and is 100% private money too iirc. from our point of...