Tag Archive for Airport competition

How many airports does London need?

Lord Berkeley

The debate about the need for a third runway at Heathrow is hotting up.  Before discussing the merits, I think we all need a health warning when reading all the comments on the lines of ‘they would say that, wouldn’t they?’ We now have five airports around London – Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Luton and London…

Heathrow and aviation policy

Lord Soley

My frustration with the lack of any policy for avaition by the current government provoked me to come in to Lord Spicer’s question with the following supplementary: Lord Soley: Is not the answer to the Question of the noble Lord, Lord Spicer, really that, in future, South American flights will go to Madrid, Indian and…