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The Heathrow decision explained in triangles

Written by Aviation Advocacy on . Posted in Airports

The UK Airports Commission recently released its report recommending the development of a new northwest runway at Heathrow to address airport capacity constraints in the South East. The Commission reached its view after undertaking a cost-benefit analysis of the different options. The benefits were estimated to exceed the costs for all options, but the net benefit was estimated to be highest for the Heathrow northwest runway option. The report’s analysis is pretty comprehensive – the main report is 342 pages long with various technical reports making up an astonishing 4,470 pages of analysis. However, the report’s findings and recommendation can essentially be explained by a triangle.

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