Logistics cheers as third runway for Heathrow gets green light at last
Supply chain leaders in the UK have given their backing after the government threw its ...
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The UK cannot wait for Heathrow’s new runway if it is to prosper as an air cargo gateway.
The challenges arising from Brexit may lead to much-needed and long-overdue diversification of the industry, said an executive at a major UK airports group at an FTA air freight round table last week.
“With the UK leaving the EU, there will likely be an increase in smaller point-to-point flights, with more flights leading to traffic jams at the likes of Heathrow,” he said.
“Heathrow is ...
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John Busby
March 07, 2019 at 10:21 amIn 2018 Heathrow’s freight tonnage carried has increased by 28.5% since 2007 without another runway with the deployment of bigger aircraft. This takes into account a Brexit uncertainty fall of around 1% in 2018 over 2017 instead of the usual average annual growth of 3% in traffic.
There is no need for another runway at Heathrow as its ultimate passenger capacity of 130 million per year can be attained with average passengers per flight of an easily obtained 290. See …/runway.htm