Heathrow Protesters are knuckleheads

People who are going to be protesting at Heathrow are knuckleheads.
They have got their priorities completely backwards. Instead of
attempting to stop the construction of a third runway, they should be
lobbying Boeing and Airbus to manufacture more environmentally
friendly aircrafts (which both have committed themselves to BTW).

Aviation currently contributes only 3% of green house gases (according
to any newspaper article I have read). Road transport and industry
should receive the highest attention in terms of forcing them to have
better green credentials.

To reinforce the obvious, aviation has created global connectivity in
an unprecendented level over the last few years. Heathrow is now
facing stiff competition from other European and Gulf based airports
in terms of transit passengers. If anyone interested looks at the
possible city pairs that are now seemlessly connected by BA or
Emirates through their respective hubs, you will be amazed how the
world has become smaller.

These connections are directly contributing to the economies in
question. Needless to say that third world countries have much to gain
from more flights to their destinations (should there be a demand). It
is all fine for tree huggers from the west to shout planet earth and
line up on one of Heathrow's runways. What they don't realise is that
by not allowing the likes of British Airways and Virgin Atlantic to
create more links from the Americas to Europe, Asia and Africa, they
are preventing masses of people from potentially achieving a gradual
improvement in their lives. With the tax regime that the British
Government has now imposed on aviation, it seems that authorities are
more concerned about appeasing to populist demand than sound business.

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People who are going to be protesting at Heathrow are knuckleheads.
They have got their priorities completely backwards. Instead of
attempting to stop the construction of a third runway, they should be
lobbying Boeing and Airbus to manufacture more environmentally
friendly aircrafts (which both have committed themselves to BTW).

Aviation currently contributes only 3% of green house gases (according
to any newspaper article I have read). Road transport and industry
should receive the highest attention in terms of forcing them to have
better green credentials.

To reinforce the obvious, aviation has created global connectivity in
an unprecendented level over the last few years. Heathrow is now
facing stiff competition from other European and Gulf based airports
in terms of transit passengers. If anyone interested looks at the
possible city pairs that are now seemlessly connected by BA or
Emirates through their respective hubs, you will be amazed how the
world has become smaller.

These connections are directly contributing to the economies in
question. Needless to say that third world countries have much to gain
from more flights to their destinations (should there be a demand). It
is all fine for tree huggers from the west to shout planet earth and
line up on one of Heathrow's runways. What they don't realise is that
by not allowing the likes of British Airways and Virgin Atlantic to
create more links from the Americas to Europe, Asia and Africa, they
are preventing masses of people from potentially achieving a gradual
improvement in their lives. With the tax regime that the British
Government has now imposed on aviation, it seems that authorities are
more concerned about appeasing to populist demand than sound business.

It doesn't matter how many links onwards they make.

Nobody wants to transfer onwards through Heathrow because these days it's
essentially a prison camp with decent shopping. Being treated as if you're
an axe murderer isn't any way to start your holiday or go to a business
meeting.

You don't think Emirates have started doing long haul out of Newcastle
airport because people actually want to go to Newcastle from Asia and the
Middle East in those sort of numbers do you?

People just want to avoid Heathrow.

In the future you're going to see more and more scheduled long haul airlines
using UK provincial airports with decent onwards links to Europe in a
desperate attempt to recover some of their trade. Operating in the UK is
easy for international airlines, everyone speaks English and everyone in
the aviation business speaks English as well.


--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

On Aug 12, 3:37 pm, "William Black"
wrote:

No body is denying the hassles of Heathrow. There is plently of noise
about it and everyone is coming down on BAA. There is still demand for
more flights to operate out of Heathrow and restricting runway
capacity isn't going to make life easier for anyone. Think of all
those delayed takeoffs and landings.

It doesn't matter how many links onwards they make.

Nobody wants to transfer onwards through Heathrow because these days it's
essentially a prison camp with decent shopping. Being treated as if you're
an axe murderer isn't any way to start your holiday or go to a business
meeting.

You don't think Emirates have started doing long haul out of Newcastle
airport because people actually want to go to Newcastle from Asia and the
Middle East in those sort of numbers do you?

People just want to avoid Heathrow.

In the future you're going to see more and more scheduled long haul airlines
using UK provincial airports with decent onwards links to Europe in a
desperate attempt to recover some of their trade. Operating in the UK is
easy for international airlines, everyone speaks English and everyone in
the aviation business speaks English as well.

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.- Hide quoted text -

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