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stevec asked Carol Barbone: "Carol, Stop Stansted Expansion Campaign Groups objective is to contain the development of Stansted airport within tight limits - how do you propose the airport is to develop without expansion? "
Carol Barbone answer: "Stansted Airport has an opportunity, within the present planning permission to grow to 25 million passengers a year and to double its cargo operations. It should also focus more on meeting the needs of..." Show more»" Stansted Airport has an opportunity, within the present planning permission to grow to 25 million passengers a year and to double its cargo operations. It should also focus more on meeting the needs of business travel and less on cheap leisure flights. And it has an opportunity to develop more long haul services which would better service the needs of the East of England Region instead of its present focus as the UK mecca for cheap flights to Europe. There is also much which could be done to reduce the adverse impacts of the airport, for example by banning the noisiest planes, improving the rail infrastucture so as to take pressure off the roads, and ending night flights. If BAA showed a genuine willingness to minimise the worst impacts of the airport, there would be scope for constructive dialogue between SSE and BAA. "Show less«
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stevec asked Carol Barbone: "If the airport is not allowed to expand how safe are the businesses that rely wholely on the trade that the airport brings e.g taxi's, aircraft maintenance, catering, hotels, and shops? "
Carol Barbone answer: "No-one is suggesting the airport should contract or be closed. The key priority is to develop a broadly-based, diverse local economy which is not over-dependent on any single industry or employer. We ..." Show more»" No-one is suggesting the airport should contract or be closed. The key priority is to develop a broadly-based, diverse local economy which is not over-dependent on any single industry or employer. We have all seen what can happen when there is over dependency and something goes wrong, for example in the coal-mining towns of Yorkshire, the shipyards of Tyneside or the steelworks of South Wales. We are not predicting Stansted's imminent demise but there are long term risks to every industry and aviation is no exception. The local economy has thrived for more than 200 years precisely because it has been dynamic and broadly based. We should keep it that way and not have too many eggs in one basket. "Show less«
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0 comment | Topic: Business | Email to friends | Nov 28 2007 1:18:15 PM

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