Predict and provoke.

This article focuses on the expansion of airport facilities in Great Britain, based on the prediction that as many as 500 million passengers will be using British airports in 2030. At least three new runways will be needed in the southeast to meet future demand, according to the government's consultation paper. But the possible sites listed for expansion, Stansted, Heathrow or a new estuarial airport at Cliffe in Kent, are bitterly contested. Thanks to an injunction that forced the government to include Gatwick too, it has extended the consultation process until May 2003; a final decision should come later in the year.