Procrastination and delay have caused significant lack of runways in the South East. A decision needed to be taken and a third runway at Heathrow is unwelcome but necessary. The government should have granted a second runway at Gatwick too. The river estuary airport plans at Maplin and Thannet should have been started long ago but were not so now the need is despaerate; witness all the cancelled flights into Heathrow caused by a simple storm like Doris.
Procrastination and delay have caused significant lack of runways in the South East. A decision needed to be taken and a third runway at Heathrow is unwelcome but necessary. The government should have granted a second runway at Gatwick too. The river estuary airport plans at Maplin and Thannet should have been started long ago but were not so now the need is despaerate; witness all the cancelled flights into Heathrow caused by a simple storm like Doris.