Heathrow

• Europe’s busiest airport (70m passengers / year)
• Build a third runway
• Consequence - 40 new foreign Destinations
• Consequence - keep Heathrow as a global hub
• Consequence - generate £150b nationally
• Consequence - protect 115,000 jobs and create 70,000 new ones
• Consequence - an extra 200,000 flights a year
• If Heathrow has a sneeze, Europe catches a cold
• Stakeholders:

  • owners, London mayor, plane stupid group, local mps, Richard Branson
• Conflicts

  • local houses and sound pollution
  • promotes more planes
  • would have to destroy 2x villages and build over m25