This would mean their passengers, local residents and business executives would be connected to many more overseas destinations with just a change at Heathrow necessary.
The good news is that, by analysing the flow of Underground passengers, local authorities could potentially track social deprivation in real-time.
An unsubsidised small airport would not pay several euros to attract each passenger but local hotels, shops and other businesses might.
Another passenger — a local nurse named Mary — made her diagnosis: "He's drunk," she said in English, scrunching her face in disapproval.
Commercial aviation had its birth in Florida, when the first commercial winged flight took place in 1914, flying 21 miles with one paying passenger, a local mayor.
Emergency vehicles ferry small groups of passengers to local homes for the night.
Both of them were trying to go straight as barkers at a woro-woro station, snagging passengers for local runs.
Around the Bronx, many livery drivers said they mostly ferried passengers to local appointments and shopping malls, and occasionally to the Empire City Casino in Yonkers.
The pilots returned the aircraft to the ground safely, but passengers told local media the plane was filled with a burning smell.
East of Abyan, an American drone fired on a vehicle carrying people suspected of being militants in the province of Hadramout, killing its three passengers, a local official said.
