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Get me some traffic
A very respected Fleet Captain of a much missed UK airline once said in a Controller/pilot forum "in a capacity strapped scenario if you don't get the odd go-around, you're not trying hard enough." True comment in the early 2000s. Is this true today?
A very wise mentor of mine once put it like this:
If someone is landing 40 aircraft per hour and you can sit down and knock a quarter of a mile off the spacing then over the next hour you’ll save 10 miles. That’s three extra movements. Even if you have two go arounds that’s still a net increase of one.