Jul 12, 2022 · In a bid to ensure the UK was able to cope with an expected on-going boom in air travel, Tony Blair's Labour government put forward hugely ambitious proposals to build a sprawling international...

The construction costs of the airport alone would be large, estimated at £11.5 billion for Cliffe, and £3.5 billion more for an offshore island scheme. There would be large costs for constructing road and rail access to the airport.

Feb 28, 2013 · The Cliffe airport plan is a scheme that refuses to die. Identified as the best potential site for a new airport by the Labour government in 2002, the proposal was abandoned in December 2003 on the grounds that the costs of the coastal site were too high and the airport would not be well used.

After a long and detailed consultation on the future of air transport in the UK concluded that an airport at Cliffe was not an option, Boris Johnson and his London Assembly looked into...

Dec 27, 2010 · The chaos at London airports in the run-up to Christmas has proved that the capital needs a modern hub, according to a group of former aviation industry executives who are attempting to resurrect a...

The proposal to build the airport on a platform, like those at Chek Lap Kok and New Doha International Airport would allow flights to take off and land over water, significantly reducing noise impacts and enabling the airport to operate 24 hours a day.

Feb 28, 2013 · Now the plan for Europe's biggest airport is back - and we have spoken in-depth to the man behind it. Ambitious John Olsen claims he can cure many of the ills he has diagnosed as afflicting the...

London Medway Airport (LMA) is a proposal for a four runway, 24-hour super hub airport on entirely vacant, on-shore land north of the village of Cliffe in Medway, Kent. High-speed rail links, world-class passenger facilities, and a community-focus: LMA will serve up to 140 million people per year, and 4 million tonnes of cargo.

Back in 2002, a new airport at Cliffe was one of several being considered by the Labour Government. On December 16, 2003, after a long-running, passionate campaign by people in north Kent, then-transport secretary Alistair Darling chose to leave the plan out of the Government’s airport expansion proposals.

Dec 19, 2003 · The Government has announced that Stansted and Heathrow are to get new runways under a 30-year plan for air travel in the United Kingdom. The Stansted runway would be ready by 2011 with...