London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames

Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by detritus on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:58AM (#16358948)

I did a small contract in the home of a member of one of the richest and most renowned families in the world last year, a beautiful pad in West London somewhere... right under the flightpath of flights descending into Heathrow and helicopters regularly buzzing a nearby heliport.

I found it odd that on the one hand I was in one of the poshest homes I'll likely ever find myself, and how miserable I figured I'd feel not being able to enjoy any outside aspect of it, were it mine.

This is my direct personal experience, and how it affects the 0.001%. May I ask how personal your experience of City of London airport is and the horrors it impacts upon its neighbours, or are you simply regurgitating the widely-publicised leftist whinging that was surrounding the topic a year or so ago?

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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by 20180201 on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:20AM (#16359620)

i live in a city with a similar airport situation (santa monica, ca) most of these public fights about land use are just rich people fighting other rich people, because they're the only ones interested/wealthy enough to publicize their 'plight'.

poor and middle class folks either just deal with it or are pushed out.

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Re:London City Airport Shut as WW2 Bomb Found in Thames by Symbiote on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:16AM (#16359590)

There are thousands of cheap / normal homes under the Heathrow flightpath.

It's one of the smaller reasons I left London. (My workplace was under it, so I looked for a new job that wasn't.)

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