Business Wants UK Government To Get Off the Fence over London Airport Capacity
The UK government is stalling over a possible policy shift on how to create more airport capacity for London.
Heathrow Airport owner BAA hasn’t given up on demands to build a third runway.
Heathrow Airport owner BAA hasn’t given up on demands to build a third runway.

The question of how London will resolve its looming airport capacity crisis just won’t go away, and the UK’s Conservative government appears to be ruing the day that it resolutely ruled out any question of allowing construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport. A promised statement on long-term airport policy for the southeast of England failed to materialize during March, with only a vague commitment in the March 21 budget statement that “the transport secretary will set out government thinking later this summer.”