Despite construction receiving parliamentary approval in 2018, the plans have been delayed by legal challenges and the coronavirus ... Image: Gatwick Airport wants to use an emergency runway ...

The government is poised to give the go-ahead to extra runways at the UK ’s busiest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to back expansion at the two biggest London ...

Airports across the UK could be expanded, including the controversial third runway at Heathrow under government growth plans. The Treasury is also looking at whether to approve a second runway at ...

Gatwick Airport already has a second runway only used ... still down by 13 percent from its pre-Covid traffic levels. The proposed expansions would ultimately add 30 million passengers per year ...

Back in the 1920s, Gatwick opened for flights ... the eighth busiest in 2021 thanks to strict COVID-19 rules. (Featured Image: London Heathrow Airport) IATA/ICAO Code LHR-EGLL Country United ...

Some say they're willing to accept the latest compromise if it means their homes won't be flattened, but others find any more noise or traffic unacceptable ...

The London mayor, who has said he is against any airport expansion due to the UK’s net zero carbon goals, said approval for a second Gatwick runway ... paused since the Covid pandemic.

A third runway at London's Heathrow Airport has been supported by Chancellor Rachel Reeves as part of a new strategy to boost the UK's weakening economy.