Proposed Thames Estuary Airport

[maccyd82]

Some text from the telegraph article which has made me particularly angry:

"However, for all that, the local authority – the Tory-dominated Shepway District Council based in Folkestone – supports the scheme and has approved the planning application, despite the fact its own officers also recommended that it be turned down.

It did so at a council meeting last March when, in what critics allege was a quite extraordinary procedure, councillors altered their own environmental consultants' report by deleting paragraphs saying that the scheme would harm protected areas, and substituting paragraphs of text supplied by the airport company itself, saying that it would not."

I really hope this didnt happen.

[ellen h]

Not forgetting Southend-London airport-link below.
Surely with Southend airport so near the skies round here will be even more crowded if another airport is built in the estuary!!


http://www.flysouthend2012.com/

[Wild-Woman]

We don't need extensions, extra runways, new hubs, not anything until they can fill up the planes that take off from Britain half empty!
In fifty years there may not be enough fuel to fly planes in anycase. Or enough land left that hasn't been flooded through sea level rise.

[tom00_uk]

all my recent flight i have had to fly first to Schiphol, Madrid or Frankfurt for a change to then head to destination.

with HS2 getting a lot of negative treatment its looking increasingly unlikely you could jump on a train and head to Birmingham airport to get away.

No plans afoot for a airport connected to the Euro star in France, would mean a short hope on at St Pancras and off you go. There is GDG but its horrible

[shagbat]

Taking on board the comments from Alge and Adam C. Manston would seem be the best compromise for Kent, but they are quite right in suggesting that it does not have to be near London. In the past, many of my friends have had to travel from Manchester, Scotland etc. just to catch a holiday flight from H/row or Gatwick.
Regards,
s