Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) had a setback last month. An independent proposal expanding Heathrow via an extension to the existing … Continue reading “Heathrow: a quart into a pint pot”

I suggested in my previous blog on Heathrow that the proposal for a long 3,500m Northwest runway at the airport, … Continue reading “Beware dodgy forecasts: Aviation markets are a discovery process”

Hubris or incompetence, take your pick, but for one reason or another, Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) and its sponsoring Department, … Continue reading “Heathrow: a solution to runway blunders”

When I was writing my paper on airport expansion in 2013, I had a nagging fear that it would soon … Continue reading “The never-ending saga of airport expansion”

In mid-July the UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) suggested that the Government might have to pause some big infrastructure schemes: … Continue reading “The third runway: urgent but not vital”

I did not pay much attention to London’s mayoral election campaign. I lost interest early on, as soon as I … Continue reading “Airport expansion: We need Coasean bargaining, not political horse-trading”

UK aviation has been a major growth industry in recent years, with high gross value added – just the sort … Continue reading “Air Passenger Duty – damaging a major growth industry”

When Transport Secretary Philip Hammond announced last week that the government would procede with three big rail projects – High … Continue reading “Hammond’s Soviet-style rail policies”

Around 235 million passengers passed through Britain’s airports in 2009. Most of those – both arriving and departing – will … Continue reading “The economics of airport security”