The word from Paul Waugh is that ‘Boris Island Airport’ is apparently defunct.
I find this a tremendous disappointment. Not on the grounds of the economic argument, since the costs are massive and the hub benefits overplayed. Nor because it deprives us of a regular op-ed in the Telegraph of world aviation sites that don’t lose mayoral luggage.
My reason is much more mundane. Given the Green obsessions of the present government, I was fascinated by how much above current sea level they were planning to build it.
