It is utter madness.Brentford aside, to have a major international airport with it's approaches over the densest populous in Western Europe is truly insane both from a safety and environmental angle.This will be one of the last major airports on the planet that will still have multiple approaches over huge urban and suburban populations. We lost the lead on common sense decades ago to other airports who relocated with peoples well being and safety as important as all the other factors. Not here obviously.How stupid and myopic is that?As for the jobs. They are largely semi or unskilled and aimed mainly at migrants.The really good jobs and careers have largely migrated already and what will exist will be minimal. The civil engineering jobs will only be for a short time and will then be gone.The days of opportunity for migrants to get a job and get on are long gone. At least then there was a chance of hard work reaping the reward of your own home. Hounslow, Hayes and Southall were very cheap and abundant for housing even by London standards of the 1960sThat is now truly impossible on the sort of pay and hours that modern day Heathrow generates.As an example. One well known retailer, long established at Heathrow, now pays it's ordinary staff proportionally 40% less than in the late 1970s. Not just poor renumeration, but now with no staff parking, no subsidised restaurant, less breaks and longer shifts. Staff can only get to early shifts on time by taking night buses or relying on lifts. So having to get up even earlier than 30 years ago. Parking for the shifts costs more than 60% of what they may earn per shift and taxis likewise.True to form, the ruling parties of both Ealing and Hounslow, nest comfortably in bed with Heathrow have failed to tackle or even resolve these abominations and the utter spin that has been pedalled out by all those with vested interests in Heathrow, and that of a lot of big business.A very bad day for the millions of inhabitants of Western and South Western London who will all suffer the heavy price to pay as all the restrictions to allow Heathrow to continue expanding will be foisted onto us all.
Raymond Havelock ● 3210d