Talk:Air transport in the United Kingdom

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Contents 1 Start 2 FAC withdrawn 3 Subject matter and article rename 4 Expansion needed

[edit] Start

I have created this page in the hope of achieving an informative, balanced, reliably sourced and well cited article on the state of the air transport industry in the UK. At this moment it's a start that outlines what I understand to be the key issues, and goes into a certain amount of detail on some (but not all) of them. There is much work needed to make this a comprehensive and balanced treatment of the subject. --FactotEm 14:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Status - Need to add detail on indirect economic impact (investment, growth sectors, business efficiency and economic growth, per OEF), balanced with counter arguments per FoE. --FactotEm 09:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] FAC withdrawn

• Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Air transport in the United Kingdom/archive1 SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:57, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subject matter and article rename

As a result of the unsuccessful FAC attempt I have copied this entire article to Future of air transport in the United Kingdom. The new article will deal specifically with Government policy contained in the Future of Air Transport White Paper. This article will be edited down to a stub intended to cover a more general appraisal of air transport in the UK, from historical beginnings to present day. --FactotEm 10:41, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion needed

OK. Probably a bit larger than your normal stub, but it lacks a significant amount of information relating to the history of air transport, including pioneering days of air transport, the age of the sea-plane, airport development, war years, the jet age, liberalisation of the markets, privatisations, concorde, airline development and more I'm sure. --FactotEm 12:19, 7 November 2007 (UTC)