diamond geezer

 Tuesday, October 25, 2016

A brief history of London's airport expansion

	Heathrow	Gatwick	Stansted	Luton	Croydon	Estuary
1920s		1920 Airfield opens			1920 Airport opens 1928 New terminal opens
1930s	1930 Airfield opens	1933 Opens to commercial flights 1939 Requisitioned		1938 Airfield opens 1939 Requisitioned	1936 130000 passengers 1939 Requisitioned
1940s	1943 Secretly requisitioned 1946 Opens as London Airport	1946 Reopens 1949 Will not be developed further	1943 Airfield opens 1949 Pencilled in as London's second airport		1946 Reopens, but now second to Heathrow	1943 Cliffe proposed
1950s	1953 Confirmed as London’s 1st airport 1955 First terminal opened	1953 Designated London's 2nd airport 1953 Will not have a second runway 1958 Reopens after renovation	1953 Pencilled in as backup for Gatwick	1952 Civil use resumes	1952 Closure proposed 1959 Closed
1960s	1961 Renamed London (Heathrow) 1966 Renamed Heathrow 1948 14m passengers	1961 Renamed London (Gatwick) 1963 All charter flights transferred from Heathrow	1963 Proposed as London's 3rd airport 1965 Public enquiry begins 1966 Placed under BAA control 1967 Confirmed as London's 3rd airport 1968 Ignored by Roskill Commission	1968 Luton on Roskill longlist	1963 3rd airport decision required 1968 Roskill Commission enquiry begins. Shortlisted sites at: Thurleigh (Beds) Cublington (Bucks) Nuthampstead (Herts) Maplin (Essex)	1968 Maplin on Roskill shortlist
1970s	1970 Terminal 3 opens 1973 20m passengers 1977 Underground arrives	1970 Second runway proposed 1973 6m passengers 1974 Second runway abandoned 1979 Agreement not to build a 2nd runway for 40 years	1973 0.2m passengers	1973 3m passengers	1970 Roskill Commission selects Cublington	1971 Government selects Maplin instead 1974 New government cancels Maplin 1978 Maplin briefly reconsidered
1980s	1986 Terminal 4 opens	1984 Gatwick Express begins 1987 16m passengers 1988 North Terminal opens	1984 Development plan approved 1988 1m passengers	1985 New international terminal opens	City
					1981 Proposed 1987 Airport opens
1990s	1994 50m passengers 1998 Heathrow Express begins	1998 Runway extended	1991 New terminal and station opens	1990 Renamed London Luton Airport 1999 Updated terminal opens	1997 1m passengers
2000s	2003 3rd runway proposed 2008 Terminal 5 opens 2009 3rd runway approved	2000 Terminals extended	2008 2nd runway proposed	2004 2nd runway proposed 2007 2nd runway cancelled	2005 DLR station opened	2002 Cliffe proposed 2003 Cliffe abandoned 2008 Estuary proposed
2010s	2010 3rd runway cancelled 2015 75m passengers	2015 40m passengers	2010 2nd runway cancelled 2015 22m passengers	2015 12m passengers	2015 4m passengers	2011 Grain proposed 2013 Grain sidelined 2015 Grain dismissed
	2012 Airports Commission set up to consider additional runway 2015 Heathrow and Gatwick on final shortlist 2016 Government decides 2017 Parliament votes
2020s	tbc
2030s	(quite possibly nothing)

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