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Tuesday 11 March 2008 8:23 PM
BAA, owner of seven of the UK's biggest airports and operator of Stansted Airport has submitted a planning application to construct a second runway at Stansted Airport.The "London" airport currently serves over 23.5 million passengers a year with over 30 airlines flying to almost 160 destinations across Europe and the world. Stansted is also the 3rd busiest airport in the UK behind Heathrow and Gatwick. The proposed second runway would allow up to 68 million people a year to the use airport by 2030 - with the new runway being ready in 2015. BAA said that the new runway would be built to be enironmentally friendly, and the extra flights could help to inject up to £9 million into the UK economy. Nigel Rudd, Chairman of BAA said [quote] "This important project will bring huge benefits to the east of England and UK economy, and will increase choice and opportunity for millions of business and leisure travellers". BAA has received in the last few days the go-ahead to increase airplane landing fees at its airports with prices potentially rising by 23%.
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