21st Jun 2016 05:45
LONDON (Alliance News) - The chief executive of British Airways-owner International Consolidated Airlines Group SA has issued a new warning on the cost of a third runway at Heathrow and told ministers a rival scheme may become the preferred option, Sky News reported.
Sky said Willie Walsh, the CEO of IAG, has written to the UK Department for Transport in recent weeks to argue Heathrow Hub, a scheme to extend the northern runway at the airport, should be given serious consideration.
IAG has long opposed the estimated GBP23.0 billion cost of building a third runway at the airport. A Whitehall insider, speaking to Sky, said IAG is understood to have expressed this opposition in "forthright" language.
http://news.sky.com/story/1714737/ba-owner-seeks-to-land-heathrow-hub-scheme
By Sam Unsted; [email protected]; @SamUAtAlliance
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