London Island Airport Gets Airline Support

We wrote a few days back about London Mayor, Boris Johnson, plans to develop an Island Airport in London rather than build a third runway at Heathrow. Well Boris has found an unlikely ally in the form of Tim Clark The chief executive of Emirates Airline, who is backing a the plan for the building of a new airport in the Thames estuary.

Clark is the first head of a major airline to publicly back the estuary airport scheme, and is calling it necessary, as the long-term development plan for Heathrow Airport is “severely compromised.

He told The Times: “There is no room for growth [at Heathrow]. European and Middle Eastern hubs will eventually eclipse it...“A new airport in the Thames estuary would tick all the boxes in terms of growth and the environment, and would be funded by the sale of Heathrow for property development.”

Clark added that the construction of Boris Island would allow for Gatwick to be closed, since it would only be 40 miles away from the new airport.