Originally Posted by
Flightrider
The work footprint with only 4.5 hours per night of effective time will be pretty lengthy indeed. With Saturdays in November (before the ski season starts) being loss-making for most and seeing very little cargo operation, they'd almost be better closing from 0200z Saturday to 0600z Sunday for five or six weeks to let the contractors have a decent crack at it. The process to close and then safety assess to re-open a runway after works is not inconsiderable, and a 4.5 hour nightly closure is incredibly limiting, even before you factor any weather disruption into that programme of works.
AGAIN MAG as a group has extensive experience with this process , nothing new , indeed at Manchester the runway (then 24/06) was not only resurfaced but also included easing out a hump in the levels to improve radar accuracy!
The timeframe per occupancy is indeed limiting however this is manageable with several contractor teams.