{"id":3405,"date":"2015-11-05T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2015-11-05T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:22:15","slug":"clear-commitment-by-heathrow-airport-to-significantly-reduce-night-flights-if-3rd-runway-goes-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClear Commitment\u201d by Heathrow Airport to \u201csignificantly\u201d reduce night flights if 3rd runway goes ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>5\/11\/15 for immediate use<\/i><\/em><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>\u201cClear Commitment\u201d by Heathrow Airport to \u201csignificantly\u201d reduce night flights if 3rd<\/sup> runway goes ahead<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye made a commitment to significantly reduce night flights if permission was given for a third runway.<\/p>\n

Cross-examined yesterday by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee (1),<\/b><\/strong> Mr Holland-Kaye gave the clearest signal yet that a new runway would lead to a reduction in flights before 6am.\u00a0 But he appeared to rule out a total ban.<\/p>\n

He told the committee: “There are huge benefits to local communities for getting rid of the early morning scheduled arrivals between 4.30 and 6am”.<\/p>\n

“Equally there is a big cost to that for the UK economy because those are very valuable trading routes to the Far East, Singapore and Hong\u00a0Kong. It’s not easy to resolve that”.<\/p>\n

“We are working on it. I’m confident that we will be able to find a way through that and that there’s a real opportunity to significantly reduce night flying at Heathrow with expansion.”<\/p>\n

The Airports Commission, which the previous Government set up in 2012, to look at the need for more runways, recommended in its report published in July of this year that a legally-binding ban on night flights should be a condition of a third runway being given the go-ahead.<\/p>\n

John Stewart, chair of the campaign group HACAN which opposes Heathrow expansion, \u201cFor the first time I can remember a Heathrow CEO has talked about the possibility of a real reduction in night flights”.<\/p>\n

“However, we believe they are so disturbing to so many people that a complete ban on planes before 6am should be introduced whether or not a third runway is built.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Government is expected to take a decision about whether or not to give the green light to a third runway at Heathrow before Christmas.<\/p>\n

Before the start of the Committee hearings campaigners staged a demonstration outside the building to highlight the air pollution problems around Heathrow<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>Notes for Editors:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>(1). <\/b><\/strong>The Environmental Audit Committee is conducting an investigation into whether the conditions the Airport Commission recommended should be met if a third runway goes ahead are feasible.<\/p>\n

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Press Release \u00a05\/11\/15 for immediate use \u00a0\u201cClear Commitment\u201d by Heathrow Airport to \u201csignificantly\u201d reduce night flights if 3rd runway goes ahead Heathrow Chief Executive John Holland-Kaye made a commitment to significantly reduce night flights if permission was given for a third runway. Cross-examined yesterday by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee (1), Mr … Continue reading “\u201cClear Commitment\u201d by Heathrow Airport to \u201csignificantly\u201d reduce night flights if 3rd runway goes ahead”<\/span><\/a><\/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":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405"}],"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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hacan.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}