Airport Block Will Help Ease Future Traffic Congestion

COVENTRY AIRPORT bosses last week lost a fight for a new passenger terminal.

The government turned down its application for a terminal capable of handling up to two million passengers.

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GOOD. Does anyone else here live under the flight path? Do their children go to school opposite a crash site? Now the take-off and approach apron has been modified to a bell shape, I can’t hear the TV, the kids’ school is now directly underneathlow-flying planes.

My own personal reason for being against the passenger terminal is not the noise, though it’s a concern for some. Mine is the increase in traffic. Two million this year, then when it all gets too crowded another million? I would rather hear the drone ofDakotas than the whine of queuing cars.

scruff.

. . .WONDERFUL news that the airport scheme has been blocked. All you poor pro-airporters will just have to make that huge 25-minute journey to Birmingham. It has had an awful impact on the surrounding area and villages were up in arms about it. And haveyou seen how low they fly over Willenhall, Ernesford Grange, etc. Where is the quality of life in that? Brilliant. Made my day.

Daffodil.

. . . I AM truly sorry that the airport has had a knockback. What with losing Ryton, the Jag, now Whitley is looking doomed, airport expansion would have given a much-needed boost not only to the local economy but also it would have given Joe Public thefeelgood factor which is much needed.

Speedie1.

. . .PASSENGER planes such as those flown by Thomsonfly (or Wizzair) Are remarkably quieter than the old birds that Air Atlantique fly the post around in. Surely it would be more preferable to have quieter flights during the day than being woken up inthe middle of the night by one of the louder, noisier, heavier polluting cargo planes. You moan about not having quieter flights during the day, so bring on the cargo night flights. Or do you wish for the airport to close as well?

JD

. . . I WAS disappointed to see that planning permission for the new passenger terminal was refused.

A new terminal would bring many new jobs to the area which are sorely needed as well as revenue for the city, and I am sure that the modern aircraft could operate to more destinations out of Baginton.

Hopefully the airport management team in Coventry will be able to successfully appeal this decision.

larry.

. . . I’M mystified by this argument that the economy is going to suffer if there are fewer passenger flights out of Baginton – UK air travellers spend pounds 15 billion more abroad per year than visitors arriving in the UK.

Apart from the economic argument, it’s going to be nigh on impossible to meet climate change targets if aviation expands as expected. Christian Aid predicts that there will be 180 million deaths from climate change in this century in sub-Saharan Africa.I mean, how important is it for second-home owners in Spain to fly six times a year? How important are stag parties in Estonia?

ScottRedding.

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