Downing Street has said that it is not opposed to new runways or terminals in principle so long as plans meet four tests: on economic growth, consistency with climate change obligations, noise pollution and air pollution. But airport bosses, including Mr Woldbye, Gatwick’s CEO Stewart Wingate, and Ken O’Toole, chief executive of Stansted’s parent company MAG, who attended the Labour conference in Liverpool last week, came away encouraged by Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves’s pledges to boost economic growth and infrastructure investment. Industry leaders believe it will be hard for the Government to reject all the plans.
