On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 04:01:55 -0700 (PDT)
Neil Williams wrote:
On Nov 3, 12:00=A0pm, wrote:

Currently if heathrow or gatwick is fogbound or has some other problem th=
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aircraft can land at the other. A single airport is a single point of
failure.

You'll note I don't propose closing LTN or STN. Those are alternative
airports that are not congested.

If heathrow or gatwick closed today there is no way luton and stansted could
handle all the extra flights. If an airport with more flights than heathrow or
gatwick combined closed it would be chaos.

B2003