In message .com,
Boltar writes

LCY

But infrastructure tends to grow in line with the transport links to
it.

It can only do so if there is room. And it is not just runway space. As
you increase the number of flights, the space needed for plane servicing
and maintenance, parking (plane and car), baggage handling, passenger
facilities, and so forth, also increases. There is simply not the room
at LCY (unless all of the remaining docks are to be drained and filled
in).

If the jubilee (or even DLR) had gone to
the airport much earlier it would probably be handling far more
passengers now than it does.

I think that is very debatable. The 'bread and butter' of LCY consists
of highly expensive short-hop business flights. For people using these
services, the cost of a cab from Docklands or even the City is very
little compared with the cost of the flight. I don't think they are
likely to want to use the tube in the way that incoming tourists and
outgoing holidaymakers do on the Piccadilly Line in order to save a few
squid.

Of course whether we want any more air traffic and hence
pollution around london is another matter entirely.

Indeed - and also to what extent it is possible to fit in more LCY
traffic, given the proximity of two of Heathrow's holding stacks, the
main Heathrow incoming flightpath, and also Stansted stacking areas such
as Brentwood (which are set to widen). In other words - safety issues.

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Paul Terry