Architect Norman Foster has released details of a self-funded proposal for a huge airport in the Thames Estuary. Here are the most striking details of the plan:
– Flights operated 24 hours a day
– Capacity for 150 million passengers per year
– Four runways, each 4KM long
– 30 minutes from Central London on high speed rail
– The railway station could become the UKs busiest handling 300,000 per day