The application for the second runway is known as Generation 2 (G2).
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The second new runway would accommodate planes to and from the east and would be 1, 035 metres south of the existing one.
The statement from Gatwick Airport that there will be no application for a second runway makes the Manston proposals even more important.
This included opposition to the government's decision not to allow the regional planning process to reconsider the principle of a second runway at Stansted.
Some believe the eventual choice is most likely to be a second runway at Stansted, where the airport layout is most practical and where opposition could be least.
The draft plan published on Tuesday features a second runway 1, 130 yards south of the existing one and adds that a third passenger terminal "could and should be located between the runways".
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Recent examples have included Stansted Airport, Heathrow's fifth terminal, Manchester Airport's second runway and the east London river crossing.
Residents living under the flight path fear a second runway would increase noise levels and cause air quality to deteriorate.
More than 20 years after Narita opened, diehard farmers refuse to sell their tiny parcels of land, strategically sited across the proposed path for a second runway.
On airport expansion, an issue that made his party very unpopular during the last government, he would not speculate on whether a second runway for Stansted may one day return to the agenda.
Peter Barclay of the Gatwick Area Conservation Group said a second runway would mean significant extra noise for 20, 000 people.
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Harten says he "made a split-second decision" to offer Sullenberger Runway 13, the closest runway, and contacted LaGuardia tower to clear the runways for an emergency.
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The second was they had a nice initial investment that provided enough of a runway to get them through what looked to be two or three tough years in the European economy.
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He won't commit himself either way for now but he did observe that in the last few months Gatwick had come up with its own proposal for building a second runway, Heathrow was redeveloping Terminal 2 and Stansted was changing owners.
The Gatwick Area Conservation Group said hundreds of thousands of people across Surrey, Sussex and Kent would oppose a second runway.
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