So which airport expansion option do you support? It's a hot topic, with airport developers spending the last week setting out their revised expansion plans ahead of submission to Sir Howard Davies' Airports Commission. Options are centred on Heathrow and Gatwick. Gatwick's plans highlight the relative simplicity of a project that involves building a new runway on land already set aside for runway expansion. And from watching the front-facing camera on my A380 as it approached Gatwick last Thursday evening it does look pretty simple - with fields, fields and more fields surrounding the airport as far as the eye can see.
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