News / UK needs to use all its air freight infrastructure to hold back competition

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European competitors will leave the UK behind if the heavy reliance on Heathrow for air freight connections continues, claims its major rival.

Head of cargo at Manchester Airports Group (MAG), which owns East Midlands, Manchester and Stansted, Conan Busby, told The Loadstar there was a very real potential the UK could cede ground to international gateways if it did not act swiftly, and he appealed to forwarders to consider other UK airports.

“The country cannot sit still and wait for Heathrow to get ...