Sentences with phrase «additional airport capacity»

Dr Mark Dittmer - Odell, Head of Infrastructure at the CBI, cites the «stop - start» approach to road funding and the furore over whether — and where — to build additional airport capacity as examples of political wrangling.

«The need for additional airport capacity in the South - East of England and the enormous growth that low - cost carriers have demonstrated in recent years gives us every confidence that London Luton Airport will continue to become ever - more attractive to both existing and new airlines.»

The choice over where to build the additional airport capacity London needs will be one of the major challenges facing the next London Mayor.

Summarising the considerations, Lambert Dopping - Hepenstal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Transport Policy Panel, said: «The decision around additional airport capacity for London and the South East needs to take into account how new technologies will change the way we travel and transfer goods by air in the future, and not just look at the here and now.

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The report concluded that Heathrow's route network had become «largely static» and predicted that without additional runway capacity, Heathrow's competitive position would diminish «to the disadvantage of the UK economy and to the advantage of continental hub airports» which were continuing to grow.

But the Paper suggested this had to be balanced against the importance of these airports to the South East and to the UK's prosperity, and warned that failure to provide some additional capacity «could have substantial repercussions in the country as a whole, as well as for us individually.»

Today's report also recommends Britain's airports be expanded, saying that even if prices went up to cover the full environmental costs of flights - something Sir Rod backs - «there will remain a strong economic case for additional runway capacity».

Sir Terry will offer specialist advice to the airport in support of its proposal for additional runway capacity and its vision for a «constellation of three London Airports with two runways each» — Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted.

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«Combine all these factors in with the growth of the Health Sciences industry, from both a service provider and employment perspective; expansion of cultural and entertainment venues; reemergence of the transportation services, including both commuter rail and airport services; the ever - increasing higher education capacity of the nine major colleges and universities in the city and five additional in the region; the continued expansion and success of both «Restaurant Row», Shrewsbury Street and the transforming of the Canal District, and who could ask for more?