Heathrow Expansion Advocates Prepare To Make Their Legal Case

London Heathrow Airport
London Heathrow Airport will appeal to the UK Supreme Court to overturn an earlier legal ruling that its plans to build a third runway conflict with national environmental policy.
Credit: London Heathrow Airport
UK Supreme Court judges will file into the austere stone and dark wood chamber in Parliament Square on Oct. 6 to hear a case that is being billed as a final decision on whether a third runway will ever be built at London Heathrow Airport. Since October 2016, when the government approved the...
Alan Dron

Based in London, Alan is Europe & Middle East correspondent at Air Transport World.

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