Airports Commission delivers next analysis on UK expansion plans

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The UK’s Airports Commission today unveiled its latest analysis of the  remaining three expansion projects on the table – and claimed that all three had underestimated costs. But in a coup for Heathrow, which is involved two of the projects, the Commission found that a new runway at the hub airport would contribute between £112 and £211bn to the economy and an additional 130,000 more jobs than Gatwick would gain, 70,000 of them in manufacturing. But whichever airport comes out ...