{"id":1079,"date":"2009-05-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsite.hacan.org.uk\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:33:09","slug":"leading-business-figures-oppose-3rd-runway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Leading Business Figures Oppose 3rd Runway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to the Times (4\/5\/09) leading business figures have come out against a third runway at Heathrow.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the Times (4\/5\/09) leading business figures have come out against a third runway at Heathrow <strong>(1)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They say that &#8220;the business case for a third runway simply does not stack up.&#8221;  And add &#8220;to say that all those from the business community support the third runway is wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, Chair of the campaign group HACAN, commented: &#8220;When will the Government realise the game is up?  From business leaders to the direct action campaigners from Plane Stupid, the message is the same:  a third runway is neither wanted nor needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes for Editors<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>(1)<\/strong>.  Read the full letter &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/letters\/article6215896.ece\">Business can do without a third runway<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The letter is signed by <\/p>\n<p>Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive, Kingfisher<br \/>\nRussell Chambers, Adviser, Credit Suisse<br \/>\nJon Moulton, Founder, Alchemy Partners<br \/>\nCharles Dunstone, Chief Executive, Carphone Warehouse<br \/>\nDavid Levin, Chief Executive, United Business Media<br \/>\nDominic Murphy, Partner, KKR<br \/>\nJustin King, Chief Executive, J Sainsbury<br \/>\nSir Roy Gardner, Chairman, Compass Group<br \/>\nJeremy Darroch, Chief Executive, BSkyB<br \/>\nJames Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive, News Corporation<br \/>\nHoward Leigh, Managing Director Cavendish Corporate Finance<br \/>\nMartin Armstrong<br \/>\nLord Young of Graffham, former President of the Institute of Directors<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Stewart on 0207 737 6641; 07957385650<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter to the Times (4\/5\/09) leading business figures have come out against a third runway at Heathrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5392,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/5392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}