The decision to back a third runway at Heathrow is a grotesque folly | John Sauven

Business flights are declining, CO2 levels are climbing, and the cost of expansion is staggering. Only shameless cynicism can explain this outcomeThe government’s decision to back a third runway at Heathrow has been informed by a mishmash of misinformation and missing information. To take just one example, business flights are in decline. They’ve been in decline for years. And yet the debate is conducted as though they were not only increasing, but increasing at a rate that our curre