Originally Posted by
DC3 Dave
Do these touch and go circuits count as movements? Or would the offer increase the amount of GA activity generally? There is a lot of talk here about night cargo flights but there is another restriction not often mentioned.
There is a limit on the number of freight flights which can operate each year, which is 5,330 or 10% of the total ATMs in a quota year.
Now look at the ATM count for September, a little over 1,800 which would allow for just 6 cargo movements per day, although going over in a particular month would not be a problem if it all worked out over a quota year.
So 10 additional GA movements allows 1 additional cargo.
There is an annual cap on ATMs of just over 53k. The airport cannot exceed that amount. Cargo cannot exceed 10% of the annual cap.