Lord Adonis: Build a Runway on English Greenbelt to Benefit Scotland

Lord Adonis:

Speaking exclusively to The Herald, [Adonis] predicted a steady erosion in the more than 100 weekday flights that currently exist between London and Scotland over the next decade in the event of a Conservative election victory.

“If the Tories were to win and Heathrow did not expand, then this would seriously disadvantage Scotland,” he said.

“It would create more pressure on landing slots at Heathrow and there is a real danger that airlines would divert those slots to larger, long-distance planes that give them greater revenue.”

By strange coincidence it was Scottish MPs who helped win the third runway vote for Gordon Brown. English MPs voted against it (see: Heathrow third runway: Flying in the face of English democracy & Heathrow Third Runway: How they voted).

Shouldn't we be aiming to reduce internal flights anyway?