London is the world’s greatest city — it deserves an airport to match that status. Although the capital’s premier hub has come a long way since the days of “Heathrow Hell” a decade or so ago it still falls short of passengers’ and business expectation too often.
Much of that is down to capacity constraints as Heathrow Airport is bursting at the seams; the 474,965 plane departures and arrivals it handled last year represented 98.7% of its legal allowable maximum. No wonder so many flights back to London end with a frustrating half an hour circling over the home counties countryside waiting for a landing slot.
