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Heathrow tables ‘shovel ready’ plans after rival bid submitted
The Journal
|August 02, 2025
HEATHROW’S senior management have submitted their proposal to oversee the hub’s long-awaited third runway expansion in a competitive tender process that will see it face off against a rival operator for the first time in the airport's history.
Airport officials confirmed they had lodged “shovel-ready” plans for a privately funded runway ahead of the Department for Transport’s Thursday deadline, which they said would enable flights to commence within a decade
Heathrow announced its submission just one day after another operator - headed by Arora Group hotel magnate Surinder Arora - disclosed it was putting forward a competing proposal to manage the huge project.
This story is from the August 02, 2025 edition of The Journal.
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