LHR R3 revisited

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No apologies here for my stance. Bring on R3 if only to avoid overuse and a catastrophe at LHR due to squeezing quarts constantly into pint pots.

It’s in the national interest to do so. lHR is a global world hubwithinrivalledconnections over the pond eclipsing competitor airports such as AMS,CDG, FRA.

If we can waste billions on HS2 from the public purse the we can certainly stump up for LHR expansion. Andre Evie a better RoI to boot!

In which nations national interest? Certainly not Scotland’s.

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No apologies here for my stance. Bring on R3 if only to avoid overuse and a catastrophe at LHR due to squeezing quarts constantly into pint pots.

It’s in the national interest to do so. lHR is a global world hubwithinrivalledconnections over the pond eclipsing competitor airports such as AMS,CDG, FRA.

If we can waste billions on HS2 from the public purse the we can certainly stump up for LHR expansion. Andre Evie a better RoI to boot!

In which nations national interest? Certainly not Scotland’s.
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You know me well. I’m talking of the United Kingdom, not Scotland. Given a population of 5 million over of UK total of 60 million you simply can’t replicate everything from LHR to Scottish airports.

[Clive]

[quote=atuk post_id=14203 time=<a href="tel:1738437177">1738437177</a> user_id=75]
No apologies here for my stance. Bring on R3 if only to avoid overuse and a catastrophe at LHR due to squeezing quarts constantly into pint pots.

It’s in the national interest to do so. lHR is a global world hubwithinrivalledconnections over the pond eclipsing competitor airports such as AMS,CDG, FRA.

If we can waste billions on HS2 from the public purse the we can certainly stump up for LHR expansion. Andre Evie a better RoI to boot!

In which nations national interest? Certainly not Scotland’s.

You know me well. I’m talking of the United Kingdom, not Scotland. Given a population of 5 million over of UK total of 60 million you simply can’t replicate everything from LHR to Scottish airports.
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Yes, not Scotland so R3 LHR is not in Scotland’s national interest as it’s conceived to further concentrate UK business in the south east England. In fact all it will do is facilitate a bigger airside transit operation for globe trotting overseas travellers who use the facility but never set foot landside.

What would be in Scotland’s national interest would be the addition of more direct flights to more global gateways, ie GLA-JFK, IST, HKG, PVG and indeed some direct air cargo routes from PIK to key markets for our goods and produce, as well as the kind of freight ferry infrastructure that Ireland has to Europe, from Greenock and either Rosyth or Leith. That’s what we need, not the promise of a few extra boxes of our salmon being trucked to Middlesex for export.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves call for Heathrow airport expansion based on report ordered by Heathrow owners.

Data supplied by the airport itself.

Methodology previously rejected by Transport Dept as not fit for purpose.

Full report today in The Guardian, https://t.co/04RTP4bsT1 including:

…”NEF’s analysis has identified a wide range of weaknesses in the economic case, which have emerged since it was last fully appraised in 2015. Not least, the decline of business air travel, the surge in outbound leisure travel and the negative impacts on wider regions of the UK – all of which erode the potential growth benefit.”