Local businesses support Heathrow expansion plans
Nigel Milton, Heathrow Policy Director, said: "We welcome this support from Hounslow businesses. They understand the vital contribution Heathrow makes to local jobs and they are acutely aware how expanding our hub airport would boost the local economy."
Heathrow supports 114,000 local jobs either directly (through jobs within the airport boundary) or indirectly (through support businesses such as courier firms), representing approximately one in five jobs in the local area. This is supported by Hounslow Chamber of Commerce’s survey results which show that more half of respondents had located their firms deliberately to benefit from the business that comes through Heathrow or its supply chain.
In its ‘One Hub or None’ report, Heathrow – the UK’s hub airport - set out why a hub airport is important, why the UK’s connectivity needs can only be met by a single UK hub airport and why it is not possible for non-hub airports such as Gatwick, Stansted or Birmingham to add the extra connectivity to emerging markets that the UK needs.
