{"id":261376,"date":"2025-08-04T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boss-british-airways-warns-heathrow-runway-empty\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:17:25","slug":"why-the-boss-of-british-airways-owner-warns-heathrow-airports-3rd-runway-could-be-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261376","title":{"rendered":"Why The Boss Of British Airways&#8217; Owner Warns Heathrow Airport&#8217;s 3rd Runway Could Be &#8220;Empty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Airlines Group (<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255424\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iag\/\"  >IAG<\/a><\/span>) CEO Luis Gallego believes that London Heathrow&#8217;s planned third runway could be &#8220;empty&#8221; due to excessive charges to airlines. The cost of developing a third runway at Heathrow is estimated at almost $28 billion, and the cost would likely be passed on to airlines and passengers through higher airport fees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The runway&#8217;s high construction costs will likely be passed on to airlines and passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1513,3436,1022,3960,701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-british-airways","category-iag","category-london-heathrow-airport","category-runway","category-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261717,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261376\/revisions\/261717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}