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Bristol airport gets green light for expansion

[Bristol] bombed user | 24.05.2010 16:22

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE64N1AC20100524

UK Bristol airport gets green light for expansion
Mon May 24, 2010 11:37am EDT

Clearance by North Somerset Council will allow the airport to press ahead with plans to handle 10 million passengers by 2019-20, up from around six million at present.

The airport, jointly owned by a unit of Australia's Macquarie (MQG.AX) and Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, is the ninth largest in Britain, a spokesman said on Monday.

The expansion plan was focused around the existing site and did not involve an additional runway or terminal.

Separately, British airports operator BAA, owned by Spanish builder Ferrovial (FER1.MC), said it had dropped plans to build additional runways at Heathrow and Stansted airports in London in the face of opposition from Britain's new government.

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- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/692493