THEmarathon four-year public inquiry into building a fifth terminal at Heathrow is scheduled to end on Wednesday.
Evidence for and against the ú1.8bn terminal will then be reviewed and the results submitted to the Government by 2001.
If BAA is successful in getting the go ahead for the 30m passenger terminal, building work will take around four years.
BAA chief executive Sir John Egan was due to outline the company’s view on the inquiry last Friday and give his predictions for the outcome. Sir John is also expected to talk about issues concerning slot constraints in the southeast and competition from European hubs. Terminal Five’s construction will give Heathrow an 80m capacity.
n BAA airports handled 7.5m passenger last month, a 7.8% rise on February 1998. The biggest growth was at Stansted, which was up 50% to 524,000 passengers, due to new flights from low-cost carriers, KLM UK and Star Alliance airlines.