London airports policy review re-runs forty year old saga

The UK government has dusted down an approach that failed before to deal with the politically tricky issue of London’s future airport capacity: set up a commission to find a solution.

The replacement of Justine Greening by Patrick McLoughlin as UK transport secretary has brought the possibility of a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport a step closer. But the creation of a Commission into airport capacity leaves the government in danger of repeating mistakes made in the 1960s...