Originally Posted by
Packer27L
Interesting proposal to use the main and the northern together however. Place your bets on who blinks first - the CAA or GAL....
It's a bit of an exaggeration to describe a throwaway remark at last November's meeting of GATCOM as a "proposal":
"In response to a question raised by the environmental and amenity groups’ representative, Mr Wingate advised that as part of GAL’s review of its airport master plan, GAL would be looking at the capability of Gatwick’s main runway and the northern (Maintenance/Emergency) runway before looking at a new runway over the coming months. GATCOM was reminded that the 1979 legal agreement, which prohibited the concurrent use of the emergency runway, expired in 2019."
Minutes of the meeting of the Gatwick Airport Consultative Committee held on 9 November 2017 at Gatwick Airport