Gatwick second runway given green light by government

Gatwick's 2nd runway has been fixed the go-ahead by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander.

The program is aimed astatine expanding the airport's capableness by 100,000 flights a year

The bluish runway already exists astatine the airdrome parallel to the main one, but cannot beryllium utilized astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic it is excessively close.

It is presently constricted to being a taxiway and lone utilized for take-offs and landings if the main 1 has to shut.

Gatwick wants to determination it 12 metres further distant to lick this problem.

It says the £2.2bn task would not request authorities money, would beryllium 100% privately funded, and could beryllium implicit by the extremity of the decade.

The airdrome is already the 2nd busiest successful the UK, and the busiest azygous runway airdrome successful Europe.

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