ABTA Travel Matters

The Millbank Media Centre, Westminster, was the venue for ABTA’s annual Travel Matters forum, with the great and the good from the industry turning out.

Keynote speaker Justine Greening MP, Secretary of State for Transport, is clearly warming to her new role but in truth she had very little to say, acknowledging that the current queuing problems at passport control at Heathrow and other UK airports was “a problem that needs to be fixed.”  Ms Greening was responding to questions from the floor following the release of a report highly critical of the level of service provided by the UK Border Force.

The Minister, not for the first time, ruled out the option of a third runway at Heathrow and permission for mixed mode use of runways where runways can be used for both take-off and landing.

Discussing the need for extra airport capacity she confirmed that this “was a nettle that needed to be grasped” but there was also need for a more informed, less heated debate on the issue.  She also asserted that capacity issues needed to be looked at throughout the country not just in the South East. www.abta.com/events/travelmatters

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