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RAC/OPS
I don’t know if it’s true or not but I was told that the airlines and the pilots’ union was approached about increasing the crosswind and tail wind limits and they declined.
Back in the day, it was 25 kts crosswind (not much better than 20, but did make quite a difference as to how often single runway ops were required), until the local carriers got fed up of landing on a short runway with 25 kts of crosswind due to noise sharing.
The 20 kts was supposed to be introduced only for noise sharing modes, but it got f@rked up somewhere along the line and 20kts was adopted across the board.
Not sure if it was ASA/CASA/QFA or AAA - probably a combination of all 4.