Woldbye at the Aviation Club

The next Aviation Club lunch on Thursday 12 February is at the Royal Overseas League and features Guest of Honour, Thomas Woldbye, CEO Heathrow since October 2023.  The proposed £49 billion third runway scheme has been called an unaffordable “vanity project” that does not meet the needs of passengers, research has found.  The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport said the development was based on assumptions about traveller behaviour, airline economics and capacity at other London airports that were more than ten years out of date, and in its present configuration, the project was unlikely to be “affordable”.

The report was written by Chris Tarry, the chairman of the institute’s aviation policy group and an experienced industry analyst and consultant.   Questions are expected to be raised regarding a proposal for much shorter replication of the 2162m Luton runway, limited to smaller and quieter aircraft, and would be far cheaper.

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