On 08/05/2013 00:43, Recliner wrote:
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Exactly. Any new or greatly expanded inland airport will turn out to have
outraged neighbours just as unhappy as those who live under the Heathrow
flight paths. And one far enough away to annoy no-one will also be too far
away from the customers to be non-viable.

Not arguing in favour of Neil's Stansted option, but there would be
fewer "outraged neighbours" than a four runway Heathrow (where
'neighbour' = people under the flightpath).