Lack of detail in Heathrow Airport expansion plans criticised by Times

With Parliament due to vote on plans to expand Heathrow Airport in a few months time, one leading business commentator was scathing of the airport’s failure to provide data on many key issues. Rik Thomas reports

03 April 2018

Heathrow’s vision of how the airport will look ‘between 2035 and 2040’ – notice the curious absence of aeroplanes

Plans to expand Heathrow Airport came in for significant criticism on 21 March from a somewhat unexpected source – The Times’ chief business commentator, Alistair Osborne – due primarily to their vagueness. “MPs are always voting on things they don’t know much about,” he began, referring to a Parliamentary vote on a third runway at Heathrow due in a few months time. “But you would think that, by now, a few facts would have been established ahead of this...