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Originally Posted by thenry
Thank you for the explanation. Would Gatwick expansion positively effect Heathrow at all?
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Its debatable, there still a few point to point airlines left at Heathrow who might move over to Gatwick (though why they havent already as theres is still copacity?) but not enought to make any real difference at Heathrow. IMO Gatwick expansion will make no real difference to issues at Heathrow,
The best solution is as i said earlier. Give BOTH airports there new runway which will get rid of the dreadded heathrow hold stack (where planes circle over London for 30-60 minuites waiting for landing clearence) which would reduce aircraft, noise AND pollution over london (even with increased flight numbers). and as a gesture of goodwill to the anti's give Heathrow a hard cap of 90% capacity (so they can not sell more then 90% of there slots) making emergency recovery easier.