Joe Patrick wrote:


Why not, rather than expand the airport, and create more noise and far
more pollution, build a high-speed domestic rail link and ban all
domestic flights to destinations served by said rail link?


I've long held the view that the WCML PUG and LHR rail link and CTRL
and channel tunnel should have allowed for high speed inter-airport
node trains, connecting in the UK Manchester, Birmingham, LHR, LGW,
Paris CGD, AMS Shiphol and possibly Frankfurt Main. Some trains would
be exclusive airlines paths conveying transit passengers and checked
baggages , others stopping at certain principal stations for passengers
for journeys into town/s. Reduces airport expansions needs by freeing
slots.


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Nick