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There's been so much talk about Heathrow
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the past few months because that is, you
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know, Britain's uh busiest and biggest
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airport. That's been in this months-long
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battle with two secure its third runway.
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But, we mustn't also neglect uh
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Britain's second busiest airport,
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Gatwick, which has now got clearance for
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a second runway itself. So, what one
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this is isn't significant because um
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they've seen off uh legal challenges.
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Um so, there was a campaign called the
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Communities Against Gatwick Noise
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Emissions, CAGNEY for short. Uh which
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complained uh but uh the judge said that
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this was this complaint was without
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foundation. So, they've seen off those
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uh legal threats. Uh but, more
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significantly, this is a much um
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more capital light and uh much more
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viable project than what's going on at
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Heathrow. Heathrow is is something that
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will cost tens of billions of pounds.
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They're not just building a runway. They
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have to They might well have to move
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motorways, build new terminals, do all
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sorts of other infrastructure stuff.
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That means it will take years before all
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of that is actually done. And it's still
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not 100% certain that it will go ahead.
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Gatwick, on the other hand, actually
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already has a second runway. Uh but, it
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doesn't legally have access to it. So,
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it's only used for emergency flights at
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>> It's there. It just needs to be
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>> However, it's the auxiliary one, isn't
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>> Yes. Yeah. So, it's there.
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>> Used for like emergencies and stuff like
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>> all they have to do to make it operable
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um on a daily basis uh is to move it by
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12 m. So, um they just pick it up, lift
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it, put it over [laughter] there.
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>> Well, like in Minecraft.
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>> Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Which is a much
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easier job that you can imagine than
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like, you know, moving motorways and
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building new terminals, et cetera. Um
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so, they say actually if this goes ahead
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they could they could have it all
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wrapped up in in the space for a couple
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of years. Uh which, you know, whereas
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Heathrow will take something like a
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>> So, actually if we're looking for where
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capacity is most likely to increase
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soonest in the UK, it will it will
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likely be Gatwick. We mustn't also
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neglect the other uh expansions across
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other uh airports. So, Stansted is
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Luton is doing some work.
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London City, of course, doesn't have a
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new runway, but it has a new taxiway,
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which means planes can get on and off
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the runway much quicker and it can
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increase the number of flights per day.
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So, all across London,
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saving aside whatever happens to
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Heathrow, there is there's room for a
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bit of a bit of London maxing, I think.
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>> Well, I mean, yeah, that sounds like
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good news, except for those of us
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connoisseurs of Gatwick North Terminal
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Wetherspoons, which is
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>> experience, I must say.
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>> It is a very good experience.
