Originally Posted by
Musket90
On the runway grooving, the present surface is BBA which is designed to be ungrooved, so to groove it would mean another resurface with different mix which given the costs very unlikely.
Actually JER had a BBA surface laid which they decided to have grooved. This seems to have worked OK but I've heard suggestions that groove wear is more of a problem with BBA. Having said that I would expect SEN to re-profile the runway surface as
TCAS FAN suggests and to groove the new surface. Otherwise I think that even the 737 MAX 200 would be excessively payload limited in its SEN operations. I cannot see any way that the existing 738 could be commercially viable at SEN, grooved runway or not.