Every airport suffers the odd delayed flight. In Britain, it is the runways that fail to arrive on time. No new full-length airstrip has been built to serve London since the second world war, as nimbys and tight budgets have scotched successive plans to increase airport capacity in the south-east: at Cublington in Buckinghamshire in the 1960s; at Foulness in the Thames Estuary and Gatwick, south of London, in the 1970s; and at Heathrow, to the west, in the 1990s and 2000s.
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