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This years pre-Budget report- 'How High is High Enough?'
Is the Aviation Policy report going to be honest enough?
'Aviation policy needs a reality check' press release
The 2003 Aviation White Paper: Did the Government get it right?
SASIG seeks to ensure that the national aviation strategy for the UK achieves reconciliation of economic and environmental issues in a sustainable way. SASIG is seeking to ensure that the UK implements a realistic and well justified aviation policy that:
- gives air passengers better opportunities to travel from their nearest airport;
- captures, not stifles, the economic benefits of aviation;
- minimises the environmental impacts;
- ensures travellers, not residents, pay the environmental costs and suffer the inconveniences;
- challenges the aviation industry to improve its environmental performance;
- ensures good quality surface access for passengers and employees;
- promotes better regional air services to more destinations.
SASIG accepts controlled growth of all or most existing regional airports to meet long term demand of about 200 million passengers per annum(mppa) by 2030.
The regional airports should have an increased range of international services but SASIG accepts that some destinations will have to be reached via London (or a European airport).
For the London airports, SASIG sought to make the clear point that there were, in effect, only two strategic options. The first was to cap Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton at their existing capacity of 175 mppa (million passengers per annum) and build a new airport for around 125 mppa.
Such a site must be demonstrably better that the Government's option at Cliffe. The second option was to add new runways to the existing airports, giving a capacity of around 275 mppa. This would however perpetuate the risk of more incremental expansion later.
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