Originally Posted by
Musket90
According to CAA web site Southampton has an EASA Certificate which states the runway is presently Code 4C. This presumably because the existing TODA for 02 and 20 exceeds 1799m. Maybe there is an exemption for the runway width being less than 45m and CAA has accepted it.
Maybe that is the reason but it seems a pretty significant CAA "exemption" as CAP 168 states that the minimum runway width for a Code 4 runway should be 45m while that at SOU is only 37m. It would be interesting to see the rational that SOU put forward to be granted that exemption.