Thread: "Heathrow and Gatwick airports: Ministers mull rail link" (twixt the two)
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Old October 11th 11, 08:30 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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On Oct 9, 1:18*am, "Richard J." wrote:

How exactly does a rail link between LHR and LGW increase *air*
capacity? *The problem at Heathrow is said to be that the runways are
98% fully used. *Gatwick is already the world's busiest single-runway
airport. *So how is this capacity increase achieved?
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Richard J.

I guess it would allow some of the duplication of flights between the
two airports to be reduced.
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