*London City Airport celebrated 25 years recently. This is a news release
from **Hacan East http://www.hacaneast.org.uk/category/news/*
*(I have attached the pamphlet)*
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*Its been a right royal con, maam*
On the weekend that the Queen visited London City, a quarter of a century
after she opened it, the campaign group HACAN East has claimed that
residents have suffered 25 years of deception. The campaign group, which
represents residents under the London City and Heathrow flights paths, has
issued a pamphlet outlining the list of broken promises made by the airport
to local people.
The pamphlet outlines how, within a few years of the airport being allowed
to open on the basis that there would be no more than just over 30,000
flights a year, using turbo-prop aircraft, it applied for permission to
extend the runway and use larger aircraft. By 2009 it had permission to
operate 120,000 jet aircraft a year.
John Stewart, Chair of HACAN East, said, It is just not believable that
the airport had any intention of keeping the promises made 25 years ago. It
has been a quarter of a century of expansion based on deception. Expansion
supported by the local authority, Newham Council, and a supine Consultative
Committee which is meant to hold the airport to account.
Stewart added: Although no blame can be attached to the Queen, it is
simply a right royal con that has been played on local people by the
ruthless airport aided by a weak council.
Download the pamphlet
here<http://www.hacaneast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/City-Airport-25-years-of-broken-promises.pdf>
.