London’s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday offered some much needed good news for the British economy: a plan to increase air traffic.

Heathrow provides a critical economic service in facilitating the arrival of tourists and investors to British soil. This is a rather important concern in that the British isles are … well, islands. Despite lacking multiple land links to its neighbors beyond the Chunnel and its border with the Republic of Ireland, the U.K. lacks sufficient airport capacity. This means that it is harder for businesses to get to Britain quickly and invest on short notice. And it means that the cost of traveling to the U.K. remains higher than it should be.