>> Surely this and BA must be the nail in the coffin for a second runway
>> at Gatwick and maybe questions the third at Heathrow?
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>> See the builders are still ploughing on with HS2 even after the new 'push' to
>> work at home as the future of commerce.
These are all long term projects with a planning/execution timeframe in multiple years or even decades. The payback time is much, much longer. The rationale for any of them cannot be definitively said to be gone. For many years there's been unmet demand at LHR for connecting flights to the regions.
HS2 is predicated on already overloaded main lines out of Euston, Kings Cross and to some extent St Pancras. There may be a case for a pause while Covid19 impacts on commuter and long distance rail travel to the regional cities (and what happens to the 'Northern Powerhouse') but there's no rational case now to stop it or further de-scope.
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