What is the plan for the third runway at Heathro Airport?

Heathrow is an extension of the airport Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to be welcomed on WednesdayAfter years of hot debate.

With the confirmation of the expansion of other London airports including Gatwicks and Lutons, this step is likely to meet fierce protests.

Critics say that increasing air travel will make it very difficult for the UK to meet its climate change commitments.

However, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told the BBC: “Permanent aviation and economic growth run by hand.”

Heathro is already the busiest airport in the UK, serving over 80 million passengers a year with its four passenger terminals and two runways.

A third runway would mean demolishing hundreds of houses, turning rivers, and re -starting the M25 motorway between 14 and 15 through a tunnel under the new runway.

Currently 480,000 per year the number of capped flights can go up to 720,000 – or on average around 2,000 per day.

Heathro told the BBC that it would eventually be able to serve 140 million passengers in a year after the third runway operation.

Owners of the airport, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar sovereign money funds and private equity firms, said that the costs of expansion will be completed by charging airlines for the use of large airports.

But after years after years Basic plansThe initial cost estimate of £ 14bn will require to be modified.

Even with government support, the formal plan process may take up to two years.

Any planning decision can then be subject to judicial review, as well as answers to questions from opponents on environmental concerns.

There will also be questions of local authorities and nearby residents.

Eventually, construction is expected to take one of the seven years and six years.

In 2009, a third runway was proposed for the first time by the Labor Government of Gordon Brown, but finally in 2020 was given by the Supreme Court.

Several members of the present government – which included Prime Minister Sir Kir Stmper – voted against a heathro expansion in protest.

However, recently, There is an indication that the Labor Government will return the third runway,

Stamor told the BBC that the government has climate commitments, “But development is really important.”

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband said: “Any aviation expansion will only move forward when it is in line with our carbon budget”.

However, London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan’s office stated that he had “long opposition to the expansion of the airport around London” due to the impact on the air quality and noise.

Heathro’s boss, Thomas WoldB, said that he was waiting for the “clear stear” from the government in December, before he could take the plans forward.

The UK transportation includes an increase in some arguments to invest in infrastructure, help for more jobs and UK exports.

Other European cities have claimed hub airports with more runways, including Amsterdam that serves less passengers than heathro, but five runways. Paris Charles de Gaul and Frankfurt are four.

Currently, the British passes through Heathro more than £ 200bn of trade. Heathro has not prepared the figures how much business is expected to grow after the third runway, which will come at the phase of the scheme.

The Airport Commission, an independent panel that examines the need for the ability of additional UK airport, pays attention to the possible effects of heathro expansion and Informed in 2015 There will be benefits for the tune of £ 61bn in 60 years.

It states that low fare, low delay, high flexibility and construction of 77,000 jobs are included.

Moving forward with Heathro expansion will also give a clear message to foreign investors that the government means what it says about making development its priority.

However, some critics, with Think Tank The New Economics Foundation It is said that the effect on development is exaggeratedArguing more capacity to the south of England can simply displacing activity from other regions.

Aviation is a source of harmful emissions that can contribute to climate change, and the industry is under pressure to find ways to reduce its effects.

Reeves pointed to progress on making sustainable fuel and electric aircraft. A third runway in Heathro would also mean “Instead of circling London, flights can land“He said, which means low fuel is used.

But It’s away from clear Those technologies will be sufficient to make for increasing demand for air travel. Heathro will have to prove that its plan in any planning application up to the target of 2050 governments get the net-geors.

Last year, on the government’s independent advisor, emission cuts, the Climate Change Committee warned that Britain should not go ahead with the expansion of the airport without a framework to manage capacity across the country.

Prithvi’s friends have described the plan for the third runway as “extremely irresponsible”.

Elethia Wournington, the leading aviation in climate charity, said: “This huge growth in emissions will not help our economy, and simply encourage a small group of flyers that take most flights.”

The plan to expand other airports in London is already ahead of Heathro and has been seen as an alternative to the third Heathro runway in the past.

Work is scheduled to start this year to expand the capacity in the terminal of Stanstad.

The government is due to deciding at the Gatwick Airport till 27 February.

According to the first published plans, Gatwick wants to increase its capacity for 75 million passengers per year. Pre-Kovid, its record was 47 million.

Meanwhile, a decision on the expansion of Luton Airport, including a new terminal plans, is scheduled to be held by 3 April.

Overall, these expansion can create capacity for more than 60 million additional passengers by the 2040s.