The Airports Commission short-listed one option at Gatwick and two at Heathrow.
Therein lies the problem in a nutshell. The commission should have shortlisted another option at Gatwick– Option 1 – which would have caused minimum destruction (but minimum profits for the airport owners.) The American airport owners included Option 1 (minimum destruction-minimum profits) in their earlier ‘consultation’, but only put forward Option 3 (maximum destruction – maximum profits) to the Airports Commission.
That was their greatest mistake.
The local community is now enraged and rightly so. Nobody likes being taken for a fool.
We no longer trust them and any goodwill for our neighbour has now evaporated.
That loss of trust and goodwill is likely to cost the airport owners dear.
Richard W. Symonds
The Ifield Society Lychgate Cottages,
Ifield Street,
Ifield Village,
Crawley
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