Chancellor Rachel Reeves set up a vision “to make Britain the best in the world for business” on Wednesday because it signaled support for mass expansion of the airport across London.
Reeves said that the Government wanted a third runway in Heathrow – although it would take more than a decade for delivery – and signaled support for immediate expansion at Gatwick and Luton airports. Projects in Ststed and City have already been approved.
If delivered, the expanded airports could be cured annually with passengers of 309 million – an increase of 85 percent to 167 million passengers who used the 2023 airports, last year for which there are complete data – according to the Analysis of the Financial Times.
The extent of the plans shows that the airports and their group of mostly international investors are betting that Air Travel will continue to grow in the coming decades, unburdened by concern due to the carbon show.
“The chancellor is right to go behind the airports,” said Karen Dee, the Airportsuk CEO. “The expansion capacity will support growth. . . And it will not come to the detriment of our goals of sustainability. “
But the industry experts said that the growth of this scale would throw out serious challenges, including the need to draw a flight trail in heaven over London and southeast English to adapt to all additional aircraft, which would probably affect new noise pollution communities.
The enthusiasm of the chancellor has also increased the barely concealed tension within the cabinet in decades, which have appeared on the most controversial projects of infrastructure in the UK in the decades.
If it is successful, it could also do it by flying more expensive, especially from Heathrow, as the airport raises the landing fees charged with airlines to compensate for the cost of constructing the runway.
Still, to Becom Bas, a partner in the Lek Consulting who advised Heathrow, said a new capacity will be used.
“The London market has tried to satisfy demand for a while. . . I think investors can be comfortable, it will be a business case for that level of demand, “he said.
The most serious challenge is probably the impact of the airport spreading on the British carbon show.
“It’s a little hard for me to see how you could have a third runway in Heathrow and a significant expansion of flight numbers in Gatwick in Government’s carbon budget,” said one person who is closely related to the Conservative Government for 2015 to support the third runway in Heathrow. The airport never applied for planning due to pandemic.
Throwing himself as a chancellor ready to make “bold decisions in national interest,” Reeves called on Heathrow’s administration to make plans to build a third runway this summer.
While previous governments offered Mlaka support a political controversial project, Heathrow’s CEO Thomas Woldbye said he believed that the airport would now “sit together at a table” with a government to deliver a third runway.
“We can trust the Government, they can be with us for many years,” he said.
Woldbye said that the airport would now have a dust draft for expansion in 2019, which was set off when pandemic struck in 2020. It cost in the amount of £ 14 billion in 2014, includes the diverting of a nearby M25 motorway to the tunnel, ruins 750 homes, elementary school and elementary school and energy plant.
But there is little doubt about the proportions of political challenges that still face the project.
Earlier this month, Energy Minister Ed Miliband said he would not resign if the third runway moves forward, in what seemed to be the capitulation of the biggest opponent of the project cabinet.
Behind the scenes, however, it was said to be “lively”, according to a Government character, familiar with the situation. He was not among the Cabinet ministers on speech.
Other cabinet ministers were also amazed at what seemed like a sudden decision by Reeves a few weeks ago. “There was really a huge order in this regard, between the treasury and almost everyone,” said one person close to the discussions.
Some businessmen Whitehall even suggested that Reeves tried to bounce Prime Minister Sir Keira Starmer – who had previously voted against that measure – to publicly support the project. So far, he has avoided doing so, raising a question about this at last week’s Prime Minister session.
Despite Reeves’ warm words, one skeptic within the Government said that Heathrow’s order for the development of consent will still have to pass strict criteria on the climate, air pollution and noise.
“They will still have to achieve the same standards as 24 hours before this announcement,” they said. “This can move many times on this.”
In the meantime, the longtime opponent of London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he remained “is simply not convinced that you can have hundreds of thousands of additional flights to Heathrow every year without exceptional harmful effects on our environment.”
Ruth Cadbury, Labor Labor MP for Brentford & Isleworth – and President of the Transport Selecting Committee – said the Committee will now examine “how many vensions between the expansion and the growth of the airport”.
Cadbury said it was skeptical that the project could ever fill in the four tests made by the Government about climate change, regional economic benefits, noise and air pollution.
“The test is whether a project provides growth for the UK [businesses] On the whole, for nations and regions, and that? Not really, “she said.
Reeves, in contrast, insisted that the third runway would benefit the entire country.
Reeves insisted that the spread is compatible with government “legal, ecological and climatic obligations” because it pointed out technological progress that could put the path “cleaner and greener aviation”.
The airline industry agrees that it can grow during decarbonization. His map of the road to Net Zero 2050, published in 2022, assumes that passenger numbers can still grow as the shows fall.
To do this, it relies largely on the “sustainable air fuel” or SAFS, which consist of a diverse range of sources from crops and used oil for household cooking. The industry estimates that it can emit about 70 percent less carbon dioxide during its life cycle from traditional aviation fuel.
But it is far more expensive than jet fuel and is currently only available in small quantities. Air Force Companies Heads said the industry would need significantly higher state support to increase SAFS production to reach a net zero.
Colin Walker, head of transportation in the research group for the energy and climate intelligence unit, said that government hopes would make up for sustainable air fuel additional shows from Heathrow’s spread of “unrealistic”.
“The third runway will increase the shows above the capacity of these fuels to make up for them,” he said.
Meanwhile, planning experts have said that Heathrow has spent decades unsuccessfully pushing for growth.
“Heathrow would have to get very much, and the Government’s decisions would be caused on the way,” said Alistair Watson, a partner and a planning chief at Taylor Wessing.
“The only one who will win from that are lawyers.”
