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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Jonathan Prynn and Nicholas Cecil

London airport: Heathrow speeding up review of 3rd runway plans after strong post-Covid bounce back

Heathrow bosses are speeding up their review of the airport’s third runway plans after a much quicker than expected bounce back in passenger numbers after the pandemic.

Chief financial officer Javier Echave said it was looking at making a decision on restarting the programme - shelved during the covid era - “as fast as we can” as the west London airport gets “fuller and fuller”.

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