Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
London Transport (uk.transport.london) Discussion of all forms of transport in London. |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#18
|
|||
|
|||
Airport expansion: Heathrow runway 3 and Gatwick runway 2 constitute shortlist
"Robin" wrote in message ... Regardless , the whole motive behind blighting somewhere in the southeast with another runway seems to be so that airlines and BAA can make more profit. It has zilch to do with the UK economy other than the small amount of extra corporation tax it would deliver which would be more than ofset by the billions it would cost to build the thing in the first place even with partial private finance. Its a cynical campaign by private corporations for the government to spend huge amounts of public money on some infrastructure that will benefit almost no one economically except themselves and their shareholders. Do you think that multinationals don't take into account ease of travel when deciding where to base overseas offices? Not to a great extent no. Staff costs (including ease of hiring and firing) will trump this by the very large margin Eg that a Chinese company might prefer to base its European operation near an airport with direct flights to all major Chinese cities? Prove to me that this will be possible if LHR had an extra runway. I don't believe that you can do it, it is nonsense speculation Do you think that having the overseas offices of multinationals does no good to the UK economy in terms of direct jobs, demand for support services etc? Do you think the French, Germans, Dutch etc are mad for building major airports and that ur David is the only one in step? The Germans and the Dutch made the right choice 30 years ago. Unfortunately, we didn't and we are stuck with that bad choice tim |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Oyster and CPCs to Gatwick Airport and intermediate stations | London Transport | |||
Oyster and CPCs to Gatwick Airport and intermediate stations | London Transport | |||
New third runway images released by Heathrow airport | London Transport | |||
Massive Airport expansion announced | London Transport | |||
Congestion charging expansion plans: zone expansion. | London Transport |