The London Daily News

Travel Desk

Virgin Atlantic is questioning the viability of the "Boris-island" airport with Steve Ridgway the airlines chief executive claiming in the Financial Times that "its just not do-able or deliverable it’s the wrong side of where the locus of the economy is".

City Hall last week commissioned a report looking at a four runway hub airport in the south-east, with the Mayor claiming that Heathrow expansion was "done for" and pushed the coalition Government to reassess its aviation policy.

Virgin Atlantic chief executive Steve Ridgway said:

We certainly back the debate about is UK limited going to do about airport capacity and the long-term economic performance of the economy, we don't support the Thames estuary solution".