Originally Posted by
Musket90
Regarding NPRs, maybe an exemption has been given for certain 09L departures as when on single runway and on westerly ops for the whole week the runway alternation does not apply...
Yes, the only runway alternation that applies at the present time is the weekly swap between the northern and southern runway. The 3pm swap of arrival/departure runways clearly has no relevance currently.
I haven't seen any announcement of an exemption from the requirement to follow the NPRs. On the contrary, Heathrow's coronavirus website, in introducing single-runway operations, gave the following undertaking:
"Q: Will there be new flight paths as a result of this change? A: Our flight paths will be unaffected by this change to our runway operation."
That said, more than a third of departures yesterday were "off-track" (i.e. radar tracking revealed that they were not following the NPRs).