Mayor Of London Considers Island Airport

The Mayor of London , Boris Johnson, is examining plans for a 24-hour airport off the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, and have reportedly hired an engineering consultant to prepare a feasibility study as an alternative to Heathrow Airport.


Boris Johnson believes the island solution could put an end to the need for a third runway at Heathrow.

In his transport manifesto unveiled during the mayoral elections Mr Johnson had spoken about a possible new airport in the Thames estuary. Mr Johnson said: "You can't endlessly expand Heathrow in the suburbs of west London and entrench what was really a planning error of decades ago...I'm looking at all the airports around the perimeter including the option of a new site somewhere in the Thames estuary, that's something I definitely think we should look at...What we are looking at is a way of solving this great capital's aviation needs without endlessly expanding our number one international airport," he added.



A spokesperson for the mayor told the Sunday Times that Johnson “wants to undertake a study to establish the feasibility of the idea once and for all and is in the process of examining the best way to take the study forward”.