Heathrow third runway question

wildman said:
london only has one airport and that is city, the rest are just prefixed "London" to con people

Luton is not london
Stansted is even more not london
Southend......... now you are taking the ****
Heathrow is buckinghamshire
Gatwick is Surrey and if anything should be called Crawley Gatwick airport. But then who in their sane midn wants to fly to that **** hole called crawley ?
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How about London Ashford Airport? It's in Lydd, 60 miles from London :D
 
wildman said:
london only has one airport and that is city, the rest are just prefixed "London" to con people

Luton is not london
Stansted is even more not london
Southend......... now you are taking the ****
Heathrow is buckinghamshire
Gatwick is Surrey and if anything should be called Crawley Gatwick airport. But then who in their sane midn wants to fly to that **** hole called crawley ?
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Almost right, Heathrow actually is in London though, it is in the borough of Hillingdon (previously part of Middlesex as per most of London), not Buckinghamshire.

There is a similar thing with Birmingham International Airport - it is actually based in Solihull but calling it Solihull Airport probably wouldn't be too useful.
 
wildman said:
london only has one airport and that is city, the rest are just prefixed "London" to con people

Luton is not london
Stansted is even more not london
Southend......... now you are taking the ****
Heathrow is buckinghamshire
Gatwick is Surrey and if anything should be called Crawley Gatwick airport. But then who in their sane midn wants to fly to that **** hole called crawley ?
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In that case why are we proposing extending Heathrow, let's sort this imbalance by bulldozing Tower Hamlets and building a proper London airport.
 
FortuitousFluke said:
In that case why are we proposing extending Heathrow, let's sort this imbalance by bulldozing Tower Hamlets and building a proper London airport.
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Heathrow is a London airport, the poster you're quoting has got a dodgy map!

Bulldozing Tower Hamlets would be a welcome improvement though! :)
 
dowie said:
Almost right, Heathrow actually is in London though, it is in the borough of Hillingdon (previously part of Middlesex as per most of London), not Buckinghamshire.

There is a similar thing with Birmingham International Airport - it is actually based in Solihull but calling it Solihull Airport probably wouldn't be too useful.
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It's also on the Piccadilly line, so definitely London!

Boris Island would have been great, but would probably have bankrupt the country to build it.
 
I fly every week from Luton to Edinburgh and back, and virtually every week this year flying back to Luton from Edinburgh we get on the plane on time, close the doors and are then told we have to sit there for 30mins to an hour due to congestion around the London area.

I cant see how having another runway will help alleviate the congestion problem. Yes if the extra runway meant planes could land quicker opening the airspace but that isnt what is going to happen, it will be used to increase capacity for a shed load more flights, plugging up the skies again.
 
Amp34 said:
Unless Heathrow gets priority for some reason I’d be inclined to say it’s hust Luton being Luton...

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.the...-list-of-uks-worst-airports-for-flight-delays

It is afterall the worst airport in the country.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.the...on-rated-britain-worst-airport-five-years-row

I really don’t miss flying from there.
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I agree Luton is probably the ******** airport in the UK but no, the pilot says that air traffic control wont give the flight a slot as the London area is too congested so we cant take off till it clears a bit
 
Perhaps prioritising long haul aircraft instead then? That may explain why Luton is so much worse than other London airports, if it is only ATC, rather than Luton.
 
Bear said:
I agree Luton is probably the ******** airport in the UK but no, the pilot says that air traffic control wont give the flight a slot as the London area is too congested so we cant take off till it clears a bit
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There are many ATC strikes in mainland Europe which are having an impact on the network. Normal traffic regulation typically has very little impact on Luton departures. Part of the problem is airlines scheduling 40 departures an hour off a runway which can only legally accommodate half of that in the same time. That’s not the fault of ATC although many airlines will lay the blame at us. The other part is congestion in the airspace - it’s bloody busy up there and as it gets busier the delays will increase. It has finite capacity.
 
Amp34 said:
Perhaps prioritising long haul aircraft instead then? That may explain why Luton is so much worse than other London airports, if it is only ATC, rather than Luton.
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I'm guessing that is probably the case. When you consider the south has to deal with Heathrow, Gatwick, London City, Luton and Stansted all trying to take off and land at the same time, I can't see how adding another runway to further increase capacity is going to help at all

Scuzi makes a good point, Luton has increased the amount of flights the airport services to increase their income so that can't help.

Either way, it's all extra congestion in an otherwise a heavily congested area and it's only going to get worse.
 
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Finally approved. Now we just need to expand our other airports. Of course typical with this country there will still be legal challenges that will slow the process down and will waste a stack of money. No wonder we don't lead anything in the world anymore.

I can only imagine how much chaos this is going to cause around the M25/M4 junction which is in a state of permanent grid lock these days as it is. I nearly took a job commuting along that stretch, in light of this news I am glad I didn't!
 
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