Deutsche Lufthansa AG (LHA) Chairman Christoph Franz said Munich residents may reconsider their opposition to a third runway for the city’s airport as capacity becomes tighter in a few years, Focus magazine reported.

The citizen vote to overturn the plan was “shortsighted” and “also a bit arrogant,” the magazine quoted Franz as saying.

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