March 26th - Diversionary tactics: should the UK do more when planes can't land where they are supposed to?

“Passengers don’t deserve to end up on random Atlantic islands,” says Matt Purton – group aviation services director at Air Charter Service – after last Friday's closure of Heathrow. He says we must have a national conversation about how to cope better next time.

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