Lord Bradshaw
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(12 years, 6 months ago)
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Earl Attlee
My Lords, I doubt it. The issue about night flights is that flights coming in from the Far East make connections at Heathrow.
Lord Bradshaw
The work that I have done on the Civil Aviation Bill has shown me that there is a lot of spare capacity at Stansted, Luton, Gatwick and Birmingham, an airport which I am just about to visit. The release of that capacity is dependent on improved surface connections to all four airports. I urge the Minister to look into that before we try to put everything into Heathrow and so get some of the traffic spread out because it is not all hub traffic.