BAA question Government Heathrow policy
29.07.10
BAA chief executive Colin Matthew questioned the Government's logic in refusing it permission to build a third runway at Heathrow while making it easier to get to the airport by improving rail links from the Midlands and the North of England through the planned high speed rail network.
Announcing the company’s quarterly results yesterday, which included a £104m write off of costs incurred on the now blocked third runway, he said: ‘If you can persuade the 4.5m people currently travelling via other European hubs to come to Heathrow instead, that will increase demand at the airport.’
With the first phase of the high speed rail network now unlikely to include a spur to Heathrow (according to a report by a Tory peer last week this does not represent value for money), and the second phase unlikely to be delivered for 20 plus years, it is unclear now how the new Government will improve passenger experience at Heathrow, as it has promised. The airport is full, but cannot expand and will not be allowed to operate its runways on a mixed mode basis, so seems set to stagnate.
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