British Airways chief: build toll roads to help foot 'outrageous' Heathrow bill

Willie Walsh criticises Airport Commission's 17.6bn cost estimate for third runway and calls for new ways to pay for improved road and rail links

Toll roads should be introduced around Heathrow to help pay for the costs of building a third runway, according to the boss of British Airways' owner, IAG.

Willie Walsh, the chief executive of IAG, which operates around half the flights at Heathrow, said he would favour the idea as a way of funding the infrastructure, as he condemned the price tag of a third runway as "outrageous" and "overinflated".