WHAT'S HAPPENING TO HEATHROW?

The Saudis can only boast about their phenomenal wealth and growing influence, including the fact that Dubai airport will overtake Heathrow in prestige and preference by 2011...

As I listened to a business show on a Dubai radio station one evening, the commentators seemed a tad apoplectic as a result of that day's business headlines: "Dubai is second worldwide in building offices" ; and "Dubai airport records world's second best growth" . The reporters queried each other endlessly as to whether such runner-up rankings suggested that Dubai was losing its competitive "edge" . As one might expect when cheering for the home-team, their conclusions would have done any Chambre of Commerce proud...after all Moscow, ranked first in office construction, has roughly ten-times the population base, and at current rates of passenger traffic growth, Dubai airport will overtake the venerable Heathrow by 2011. SOURCE

...Meanwhile, British moonbats embarrassed and infuriated at Heathrow's preeminence and former glory, along with its planned growth to compete on a global scale are happy to help the Saudis succeed in their quest to undermine and eclipse Heathrow. Protesters are making nuisances of themselves at Heathrow over its planned expansion. No doubt, they'd prefer to go back to horse and buggy...no wait, horses produce methane. Let's make that stone age.

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