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Heathrow expansion

  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Labour signals ‘open-minded’ approach to Heathrow third runway

    Controversial proposals for airport expansion would have to meet four tests, including on climate

    A BA plane comes in to land at Heathrow
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthHeathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Thomas Woldbye, the Dane now charting Heathrow’s future

    Former Copenhagen airport head will need to smooth relations with airlines and make a decision on a third runway

    Thomas Woldbye
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    Heathrow airport explores options for smaller expansion

    Focus on cheaper improvements rather than third runway being considered as new chief launches review

    Heathrow airport
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    Will Heathrow’s third runway finally go ahead?

    A new chief executive and a boom in travel could resurrect the stalled project. But rising costs and environmental concerns stand in the way

    Montage image of Heathrow, an aircraft and protesters objecting to a third runway
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    UK airports
    Plans to expand London City Airport blocked by local authority

    Proposal rejected by Newham council over climate and noise pollution concerns

    A jet landing at London City
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
    Dutch government wins legal battle to cut flights at Amsterdam airport

    Appeals court gives green light for The Hague to curb air traffic at Schiphol on environmental grounds

    Travellers arrive at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    UK airports
    Heathrow airport and airlines launch rival appeals over landing fee ruling

    Virgin and BA seek larger cut to charges while UK hub claims regulator’s decision will hit investment

    Virgin Atlantic and British Airways aircraft at Heathrow
  • Monday, 21 November, 2022
    UK airports
    Ex-BA boss says ‘heads should roll’ if Heathrow problems continue

    Willie Walsh urges airport to avoid a repeat of this summer’s security and waiting chaos

  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow given green light to raise landing charges

    Regulator’s decision to allow fees to increase by 37% prompts backlash from airlines

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd
    Heathrow gets green light from regulator to raise landing charges

    Airlines lobby group says it will oppose Civil Aviation Authority’s proposal

    Passenger aircraft at Heathrow airport
  • Sunday, 12 September, 2021
    Coronavirus
    Coronavirus: US Covid hospitalisations stay under 100,000 for third day - as it happened
  • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Regulator blocks Heathrow’s ‘disproportionate’ bid to recoup Covid losses

    Civil Aviation Authority approves rise in landing fees worth £300m, only a fraction of airport’s request for £2.6bn

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    British Airways PLC
    BA explores sale of headquarters in shift to homeworking

    Airline aims to allow staff to split time permanently between home and Heathrow complex after pandemic

    Waterside, British Airways’ headquarters at Harmondsworth, UK
  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    UK Supreme Court rules Heathrow airport third runway can proceed

    Judges say government has taken proper account of climate change commitments made under the 2016 Paris agreement

  • Wednesday, 28 October, 2020
    LombardCat Rutter Pooley
    Heathrow’s Parisian eclipse isn’t a question of Covid testing

    Airport faces short-term blip but long-term challenge; Kaz Min saga gets its final airing

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    Heathrow’s third runway project now ‘impossible’, says IAG chief

    Willie Walsh points out that expansion plans face bigger challenges due to coronavirus impact

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Transport department counsel set to step down after Heathrow decision

    James Maurici, adviser to government on runway project, in talks over timing of departure

    A poster against the expansion of Heathrow airport is seen in the village of Harmondsworth which is adjacent to the airport on the outskirts of London, Britain, February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Lawyers wrestle with court’s Heathrow runway ruling

    Climate judgment casts doubt on other big infrastructure projects

    Campaigners cheer outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London where Lords Justice Lindblom, Singh and Haddon-Cave, said during a Court of Appeal ruling on the Heathrow expansion row that the Government did not take enough account of its commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change when setting out its support for the proposals in its National Policy Statement (NPS). PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday February 27, 2020. In a summary of the ruling, Lord Justice Lindblom told a packed court: "The Paris Agreement ought to have been taken into account by the Secretary of State in the preparation of the NPS and an explanation given as to how it was taken into account, but it was not." See PA story COURTS Heathrow. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    Appeal court puts Heathrow third runway back in holding pattern

    Legal error gives Boris Johnson perfect reason to quietly drop scheme rather than reopen expansion plans

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Time has run out for Heathrow expansion

    Court of Appeal ruling brings into focus the UK’s net-zero pledge

    PABest Campaigners cheer outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London after they won a Court of Appeal challenge against controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday February 27, 2020. See PA story COURTS Heathrow. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    Government will not appeal as court blocks third runway at Heathrow

    Judges rule that ministers failed to take into account commitments made on climate change

    Campaigners against Heathrow expansion celebrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on February 27, 2020 after a decision by the Court of Appeal on legal challenges to the UK government's approval of plans to expand capacity at Heathrow airport. - Britain's Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of green campaigners who oppose a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest. The court said the UK government that had given the Heathrow extension the green light in 2018 had failed to take into account the Paris Agreement to limit climate warming. (Photo by Niklas HALLE'N / AFP) (Photo by NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
    Heathrow braced for court ruling on third runway

    Moment of truth for Johnson, who switched sides as PM to signal project should go ahead

    2AB0ACG London, England - Circa 2019 : British Airways Boeing 777 Aircraft G-YMMO Landing at London Heathrow Airport
  • Monday, 23 December, 2019
    Heathrow shows detailed costings for third runway

    Options including early opening or delay including extra investment

    A plane lands at Heathrow Airport in west London as a third runway at the airport has been given the go-ahead by the Cabinet, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced.
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2019
    Heathrow’s third runway plans face further delay

    UK aviation regulator concerned about level of spending ahead of final approval

    A plane lands at Heathrow Airport in west London as a third runway at the airport has been given the go-ahead by the Cabinet, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced.
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
    Battle to block third runway at Heathrow resumes in court

    Activists rely on net zero emissions pledge in seeking judicial review for second time

    British Airways passenger aircraft are pictured at London Heathrow Airport, west of London on May 3, 2019. - London Mayor Sadiq Khan, along with environmental charities and local councils, on May 1, 2019, lost a court battle to prevent an expansion of Heathrow, Britain's busiest airport. Opponents to the introduction of a third runway at the west London airport cite the negative impacts on noise and air pollution, habitat destruction, transport congestion, and climate change. (Photo by BEN STANSALL / AFP) (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)
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