Aviation Policy Debate

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Lord Clinton-Davis

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Aviation Policy

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Monday 14th May 2012

(12 years, 8 months ago)

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Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My noble friend makes a very good point. That is exactly why we have called for evidence on hub connectivity.

Lord Clinton-Davis Portrait Lord Clinton-Davis
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Are not the Government suffering from infinite blindness? We have an effective airport at Heathrow, do we not? Subject to some improvement of access by road and rail, would that not be a far better option than anything else?

Earl Attlee Portrait Earl Attlee
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My Lords, we have an effective airport at Heathrow. The difficulty, of course, is that it is running at 98% capacity, so we need to make it better but not bigger.

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