BoJo

Boris Johnson to launch campaign for new London airport

I agree with the 2nd-most powerful politician in the country:
Boris Johnson will step up pressure on the government to change its aviation policy with a report warning that London will lose jobs to European competitors unless David Cameron backs a new hub airport in the south-east. The London mayor has lined up senior business leaders, including Richard Reid, London chairman of KPMG, and Stuart Popham, former senior partner at Clifford Chance, to back his call for ministers to act more urgently in addressing the need for greater air capacity.

In exchange - and that is my personal take on it - we could easily close a few other airports that serve hardly any useful purpose and sell them to private industries or the military: Plymouth, Bristol, Cheltenham, Coventry, Derby and Norwich fulfil no purpose and could effortlessly and unnoticeably be scrapped in exchange for another London area airport.

Economic research on the merits of such revamp of the map of English airstrips have begun last October at this office and is expected to be concluded before the summer recess of Parliament. Stay tuned!