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Heathrow Terminal 5 希思罗机场五号航站楼

Warms the cockles of your British heart, does it not?!

Tories change course to fight expansion at Heathrow

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After I cast my vote, the numbers stood at 23172 split like this: Continue reading Should we build a third runway and sixth terminal at Heathrow? BBC poll…

With a peculiarly ironic twist, BA delays T5 ad campaign, i.e. Continue reading BA’s foresight…

Press release: Continue reading CO2 Councils opposing 2nd runway join with 2M Group to fight unsustainable airport expansion…

Don’t worry. The local transport infrastructure around LHR and the global economy will likely grind to a halt before we reach this stage: Continue reading BAA eco-profiteering? Heathrow kiss ‘n’ fly for 20 quid (GBP)…

It is fairly well known amongst friends on both sides of the Atlantic that when my husband enters the room in which I work, if I am listening to Led Zeppelin he winces: Continue reading Led Zeppelin Night Flight for Ruth Kelly…

Councils take Heathrow to High Court

Three local authorities are taking their bid to stop “illegal” night-time flights at Heathrow Airport to the High Court, it has been announced.

Richmond council in south-west London, backed by Wandsworth and Windsor & Maidenhead councils, claims many current night flights break the Government’s own noise rules.

The authorities will present their Judicial Review case at London’s High Court on May 20, a spokesman for Richmond council said.

He added: “The council contends that the current night-flights regime is illegal as some of the flights are noisier than are allowed by the Government’s own rules.

“If successful, it (the case) could force Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly to slash the number of aircraft allowed to arrive at Heathrow before 6am.”

The councils argue that Kelly is

Continue reading Richmond, RBWM and Wandsworth take Heathrow to High Court over night flights…

Major airlines unite in protest against BAA charges hike

Tuesday, March 11, 2008 by Chris Gray

Four of the largest airlines operating from the UK joined in an unprecedented alliance today to demand a total overhaul of airport regulation.Bmi, easyJet, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic called for Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly to intervene to stop BAA raising airport charges announced by the CAA today.They said the CAA had failed to regulate BAA properly, and called for a new system that would involve the break up of BAA so Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick were owned by different companies.The airlines also called for

Continue reading Angry UK airlines call on Ruth Kelly to intervene in broken airport regulatory system…

A Sunday Times UK edition lead story today is:

Revealed: the plot to expand Heathrow

It links to this article:

Evidence fix led to third runway being approved

which is a good piece of investigative journalism supported by documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Justine Greening MP for Putney:

• Heathrow FOI document 1 Notes from PSDH Mitigation and Forecasting Workshop 9 January 2007
• Heathrow FOI document 2 Note of Mixed Mode/R3 Noise Meeting 20 April 2007
• Heathrow FOI document 3 Heathrow Project Board Meeting Note 12 March 2007
• Heathrow FOI document 4 Re-forecast Email 9 February 2007

Last, but not least from a climate change perspective, we are also given a link to this:

• Leaked Environment Agency Thames Region response to DfT consultation ‘Adding capacity at Heathrow airport’

which raises a variety of environmental concerns about Heathrow expansion in a polite, but clear way. Continue reading Leaked Environment Agency response to ‘Adding capacity at Heathrow airport’…