Re: Monday 7th July: Panorama on Heathrow

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:56:37 +0100, Brimstone wrote:
> Depresion wrote:
>> "William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:g4icbp$b0d$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> It's too big already.
>>>
>>
>> Yet dosn't have the capacity to handel the number of people and goods
>> that want to use it, that dosn't sound like to big to me.
>
> Mere size is not a guide to efficiency.
>
>>> The only people who want expansion there are the people who own it,
>>> because they want to make more money because of 'economies of scale'.
>>
>> I don't own it yet think the expansion is a good thing.
>
> Why, so that they can make less use of more space? BAA need to make
better 
> use of what they've got already before demoli****ng ancient villages. 
>
Depends what you mean by "better use". From BAA's PoV, that means making
more money. There was an interesting article in The Economist recently. It
made the claim that 1/3 of the people who use Heathrow merely do so to
change planes. They never get out of the air****t, so make no contribution
to the UK's economy (apart from increasing Ferrovial's profits).
The only benefit that brits get from having Heathrow as large as it is, is
the increased number of destinations available without changing planes.
Personally, that's something I'd willingly give up in exchange for not
being regularly woken at 4:45 in the morning when the first flight of the
day leaves.


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