Airlines issue domestic threat
British Airways and bmi will drop routes if new Heathrow runway is not built
Airlines are threatening to drop several domestic routes from their schedules unless the Government makes a commitment to build a third runway at Heathrow airport.
According to The Times’ transport correspondent Ben Webster, both British Airways and bmi have stated that they want a new runway at the airport within 10 years, and that only such a move will maintain Heathrow’s position as the leading hub in Europe.
The two carriers have listed Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast, Manchester, Teeside and Leeds-Bradford as airports that could lost their connections with Heathrow. BA’s director of Government affairs told the newspaper: “If the Government were to choose not to build a third runway at Heathrow then the inevitable consequence over time is the decline of regional services.”
Dan Hodges, of the campaign group Freedom to Fly, added: “Unless ministers give the green light for new infrastructure we face an axing of domestic aviation that will stand comparison with Beeching’s axing of rail services in the 1960s.”
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