Aberdeen airport chiefs bid to get lift-off for more routes
Bosses at the north and north-east’s two busiest airports are hoping networking at a major industry conference in Germany this week will pay off with many more flights.
Heathrow
‘Heathrow expansion no guarantee for our airports’
Voting for Heathrow expansion without guarantees for Scottish airports would have been a dereliction of duty, Drew Hendry said last night.
Third Heathrow runway to take off after MPs’ vote
The government has easily won a vote on controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow.
Amec joins Heathrow’s third runway bid
Amec Foster Wheeler today confirmed it would help Heathrow Airport Limited in its bid to secure a third runway.
AFW exec says North Sea is just like Heathrow
North Sea projects are backed up like planes waiting to land at Heathrow, according to Amec Foster Wheeler (AFW) senior executive John Pearson.
Heathrow extension sparks carbon debate
Building a new runway at Heathrow will make it harder to solve the problems of air pollution and climate change emissions which the UK already faces, environmentalists have warned. The Government has been ordered by the Supreme Court to urgently produce a plan to improve poor air quality in the UK, which causes thousands of premature deaths and disease a year, to meet European Union legal limits. In the report backing a third runway at Heathrow, Sir Howard Davies warns that without action to tackle air quality, expansion could create pollution levels in 2030 that meant the UK was breaching the law.