However, for London, finding funds for HS2, Crossrails 1 and 2, tube and station improvements and another London airport runway costing tens of billions of pounds, there is no problem.
"Do you redesign the airspace around the technology or do you redesign the technology to fit the airspace?" With a missed slot on a Heathrow runway costing its owner £500,000, Nats cannot afford to slow down.
Construction of the runway cost 1.3 million Norwegian krone and the first aircraft landed on the strip on 14 July 1970.
Generally, putting on a runway show costs at least $460,000, according to reports, but West demanded elaborate catwalks and a slew of last minute changes that added an astronomical amount to the bill.
All they know is that the airport has been closed to all flights for a year, the runway will cost $6m to repair, and that the Palestinian police had made a pretty good fist of keeping the recent quiet in Rafah, long the most violent frontline between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.
All they know is that dozens more families are squatting in tents, the airport has been closed for a year, the runway will cost $6m to repair and that the Palestinian police had made a pretty good fist of keeping the recent quiet in Rafah, long a violent frontline.
All they know is that the airport has been closed to all flights for a year, the runway will cost $6m to repair, another 300 Palestinians are jobless and that the Palestinian police had made a pretty good fist of keeping the recent quiet in Rafah, long the most violent frontline between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.
Criticism of the decision came as Britain's biggest business lobby group, the CBI, warned that repeated delays on building a new runway could cost the UK more than £30bn by 2030, with the UK losing out on trade to Germany and France.
Labour peer Lord Soley also said a third runway would cost the public nothing and "add about £8 billion to the GDP of this country".
A major runway expansion can cost billions of dollars and take up to 20 years because of community opposition.
