Airports
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Airports committee launch hints at serious effort to decide on new capacity
PM to chair high level committee to consider Davies commission recommendations. -
UK air transport capacity - the Heathrow arithmetic just doesn't stack up
Our challenge is that the proposition we have from the Airports Commission of one additional runway at Heathrow airport will not deliver what everyone is rightly calling for, says Rod MacDonald -
Video: Lord Adonis. Cameron must "eat his words" to deliver Heathrow expansion
Expansion at Heathrow is "deliverable but only with political will" - clear government leadership and decision is now needed, says former transport minister Adonis. -
Video: Interview with Heathrow chief executive John Holland-Kaye
Time for the infrastructure design and construction supply chain to engage with Heathrow ahead of a 2020 target start date to build the airport of the future, says Holland-Kaye. -
Osborne promises action to tackle UK aviation congestion
Davies recommendations must be considered ahead of any plans being put before Parliament “in the autumn”, says Chancellor -
Heathrow to start planning runway construction
Talks with supply chain to start immediately as airport seeks to build on momentum created by the Airports Commission report. -
Wait for new runway will cost UK trade £31bn - CBI
Business welcomes PM’s pledge to make decision before end of year and wants work to start on the ground by 2020. -
Airport indecision means UK is losing billions for economy
After five reports in seven decades, how much more convincing does Government need to build a new runway, asks ACE’s Peter Campbell? -
Davies sends Heathrow down development cul-de-sac in operational straightjacket
Sir Howard Davies' recommendations underline the fundamental weaknesses of Heathrow Airport as a global hub and highlights the continued absence of a longer term UK aviation strategy, says Alistair Lenczner -
Video: Daniel Moylan on London's growth, vision and moving Heathrow
Coping with a potential 11M population in the capital by 2030 means planning today, for the housing, transport, power required and moving Heathrow out of west London, says the Mayor's design advisor Daniel Moylan.