Sentence examples for runway options from inspiring English sources

Labour would not rule any runway options in or out while the Davies commission was still deliberating, she added.

The commission plans to announce a shortlist of feasible new airport or runway options in late 2013, and has requested more evidence for detailed study next year.

Gatwick Airport said it wanted to get opinions on its three runway options to help "refine and improve" them.

"The views of the local community are an essential element in shaping Gatwick's second runway options," he said.

He said the consultation, which ends on 16 May, was intended to raise awareness of the second runway options.

Along with a third Heathrow runway, options include a hub combining Heathrow and Gatwick, a new airport in the Thames Estuary and the expansion of Stansted.

Johnson, who favours a new airport hub on the Thames estuary, quashed rumours that the Conservatives in government may be revising its opposition to the third runway option.

Communications director Mark Pendlington mocked the Stop Stansted Expansion campaign, justifying their decision not to include a "no runway" option by declaring: "the government's aviation white paper stated the first new runway should be built at Stansted," and using a reference in the white paper to overall reductions in emissions as a rationale for ignoring climate change.

When the long-running debate over airport expansion in the UK eventually resulted in last year's Airports Commission report, which recommended a new north-west runway at Heathrow at a cost of £18.6bn, residents opposed to the shortlisted Gatwick second runway option were delighted.

They focus instead on runway capacity options to 2030.

Along with a third Heathrow runway, the options include connecting Heathrow and Gatwick, a new airport in the Thames Estuary and the expansion of Stansted.