Looking west over Sipson, Middlesex to land proposed as the potential site for the third runway at London Heathrow Airport Here are the key statistics in the Airport Commission’s proposal for a new ...

"We pay more attention, I would wager, to arguments we like than to those we don't. Which is doubtless why I was so taken with reports of research saying that building a third runway at Heathrow could ...

You may have noticed the large painted numbers (or alphanumeric in some cases) on either end of the runways. Have you ever wondered what those represent and why there are a maximum of two numbers ...

Gatwick airport today revealed plans to build a second runway costing up to £9 billion that could double or triple passenger numbers — up to about 87 million a year. Airport chiefs said the work could ...

Britain’s second busiest airport has revealed plans to expand to handle 70 million passengers a year – almost matching the number currently going through Heathrow – by introducing a second runway for ...

Did you know that runways have names? Not names like 'Bob' or 'Polly': instead, they have numbers for names - and not just any number, only numbers from 01 to 36. Occasionally, some runways have a ...

Gatwick Airport has slammed the conclusions of the Davies Commission on airport expansion as “flawed”. Nick Dunn, chief financial officer for the Sussex airport, said that Freedom of Information ...