Originally Posted by
SamYeager
Semi serious question: is there any estimate of how much the wait in the multiple stacks across the SE is likely to reduce for airliners wishing to land at LHR if R3 is built?
Its not a semi serious question but one of the primary questions to be answered
That said those stacks are about segregated and grouping differing traffic flows onto base leg safely correctly spaced and to maximise landings.
They won’t actually go away even with R3 infact we may see rather more albeit further out over the North Sea to manage traffic flows on approach to the parallel landing runways even capped you could well see an extra 140000 slots created.
Thats an other Birmingham sized airport.
Now where does that traffic come from certainly not entirely organic growth imho, much would be sucked in from other middle sized airports and Gatwick is that in the national interest?