Aircraft queuing for take-off at Heathrow Airport. Transport Secretary Stephen Byers is expected today to finally give the go-ahead to a 2.5 billion fifth terminal at Britain's biggest airport. * .... To be operational by 2007, Terminal 5 (T5) can handle up to 30 million passengers a year and will help create 6,500 jobs and safeguard 10,000 existing ones. 23/07/02 Options for a major expansion of Britain's airports were being published in a consultation documents being released by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling. Suggestions may include a third runway at Heathrow airport in west London,
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Aircraft queuing for take-off at Heathrow Airport. Transport Secretary Stephen Byers is expected today to finally give the go-ahead to a 2.5 billion fifth terminal at Britain's biggest airport. * .... To be operational by 2007, Terminal 5 (T5) can handle up to 30 million passengers a year and will help create 6, 500 jobs and safeguard 10, 000 existing ones. 23/07/02 Options for a major expansion of Britain's airports were being published in a consultation documents being released by Transport Secretary Alistair Darling. Suggestions may include a third runway at Heathrow airport in west London, one or possibly two more runways at Stansted in Essex, or a new airport near the River Thames at Cliffe in north Kent. Elsewhere, regional airports such as Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Southampton and Luton might be expanded. 04/11/02 : Airports operator BAA said that it saw passenger numbers nudge up over the last six months, but it remained hard to predict the pace of recovery amid the uncertain conditions. Increased demand for discount flights helped fuel the growth in traffic, which rose 1% to 70.3 million passengers in the six months to September 30 against the same period the previous year. Revenues rose 1.1% to 1.02 billion. However, the rise in traffic was offset by lower yields from airport charges, reflecting fewer aircraft traffic movements as airlines streamlined their flight programmes. 03/06/03 : BAA, who own Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, announced a profit before tax and exceptional items of 524 million for the year ending March 2003. The figure, which was in line with City expectations, was 3.8% up on the 2001-02 profit. 06/06/03 : One of the country s top heritage charities cast serious doubts on the Government's airport expansion policy. The National Trust said the Government should instead highlight the opportunity to manage demand for air travel by promoting holidays at home. It criticised th...