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Aircraft and transport: experts reject project for the new Thames Estuary London airport

London, United Kingdom - "It would be like a heart transplant, with all the risk of that"

The main topic in the debate about the air transport in the United Kingdom in these days is deeply focused on the London airport system, which is in crisis because of Heathrow's traffic limit reaching. The possibilities under consideration are various, starting from the construction of a third runway in the main city hub, to the creation of a new mammoth airport on Thames Estuary, going through...

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Rome, Italy, 06/01/2012 11:59
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