Heathrow Warns Its Third Runway May Slip Four Years Past the 2035 Target
The UK's busiest airport says its third runway could be delayed by four years, cautioning that it may miss the government target of 2035. Ministers, for their part, say the deadline has always been ambitious — a hedge that arrived well before the miss it describes.
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It's the airport itself flagging the slip, which is a strange kind of warning coming from the party that wants to build the thing.
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Or a realistic one. An operator living with its own construction timetables has better information than a minister defending a date announced years earlier.