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Airbus A380 wins prestigious UK award
The UK’s national noise reduction charity, the Noise Abatement Society, presented the Airbus A380 a top award at their annual award ceremony last night recognising the aircraft’s reduced noise around airport communities. There will be 10 daily A380 flights to Heathrow by the end of the year, which has the strictest noise regulations of any […]
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Heathrow needs Expansion Tourism bosses call
Over a third (34%) of tourism chiefs believe expanding Heathrow is the best way of solving the UK’s airport capacity problems, according to a poll. Of the 1,300 bosses surveyed, 20% backed the Thames Estuary airport plan favoured by London Mayor Boris Johnson. It was carried out by the organisers of the World Travel Market […]
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Airline executive plans new airport in Kent
A former Cathay Pacific executive, who also led the defunct airline Dan-Air, is hoping to build a new £15 billion airport in the marshy flatlands of North Kent – and the concept of an estuary airport has already won the backing of mayor of London, Boris Johnson. John Olsen would like the barren site at […]