Originally Posted by
RW20
TCAS FAN
Apart from Ryanair,who else has short field performance 738s?.I would imagine that even with the proposed runway extension there could be only a handful of airlines who could operate into SOU with 738s(the mainstay of most airlines).With this in mind if seems that the airport management may be putting there eggs in one basket,i.e. Easy 320 operations!
Apart from the two operators previously mentioned, I am not aware which others have the taken up the SFP option.
Apart from any increased take-off weights on RWY 20 due to a combination of the tree reduction south of the runway (anyone know if this was ever completed) and the northern extension, a performance limiting factor will be the LDAs for both runways, especially with a wet runway. RWY 20 LDA cannot increase with the northern extension, RWY 02 may. That said, as I mentioned in a previous post, SOU already has slightly longer LDAs than SEN.
As mentioned in my post #1928, if not already cured, the runway drainage issue needs to be resolved to reduce the need to report the runway state as "wet/wet/wet", in order to minimise the chances of the landing weight limitations that this causes.