The UK’s airports conundrum requires joined-up thinking | Letters

Insufficient airport capacity has long been a serious problem for UK aviation. It is misleading to think of any decision about a hub airport in the south-east as a choice between either Heathrow or Gatwick. Although there have been earlier proposals to run the two airports as one, those proposals considered only partial solutions.

Merging the working of the two sites can be most effectively achieved by building a new runway at Gatwick, a direct high-speed rail connection with a parallel motorway linking the two sites, and running the combined airports with an integrated communications system.