Flybe boss backs ‘Boris Island’ airport plan
02.07.11
The boss of budget airline Flybe, Jim French, has backed Boris Johnson's scheme for a new London airport - the so called 'Boris Island' in the Thames Estuary - and attacked the Government for scrapping plans for a third runway at Heathrow. He said that the capital must build a new airport or Britain will lose billions of pounds of business to the rest of Europe.
Mr French told the sun newspaper that the Government's decision to scrap plans for a third runway at Heathrow ‘delighted’ rivals in Europe. He said: ‘I was with Air France the day the Heathrow decision was made. They were showing me where the fifth runway was going at Charles de Gaulle, and the sixth. Every-one in Europe is absolutely delighted with what our Government has done - they are loving it. They believe they can take traffic away from us. We can't look at the next five or 10 years. We have to look at where we'll be in the next 50 years. We have to put London back on the map.’
In recent weeks Mr Johnson has challenged the Government over approving his £40 billion Thames Estuary airport project. The Mayor said such a scheme would be ‘the most powerful single statement we could make about the ambition of this country’. His favoured solution is an airport built on two platforms in the estuary connected to London by high-speed rail links. Planes would take off and land over the sea, solving the blight of noise from engines and allowing the airport to operate around the clock.
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