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Heathrow Airport warns third runway could be delayed by four years
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- Sep 26, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC
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Main airport serving London, England
London Heathrow Airport – named London Airport until 1966 – is the primary and largest international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system.
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The UK's busiest airport cautions it may miss the government target of 2035 as ministers say the deadline has "always been ambitious".
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has refused to say whether he backs plans to build a third runway at London’s Heathrow Airport. The Government under his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer gave its support to the third runway project at Heathrow, the largest and busiest airport in the UK, as a means of growing the economy.…
The government has been told sticking to the original 2035 deadline is not possible