To return to the issue of the parking stands. Take a recent example: ThonsonFly parked on 26N (which blocks out 26), TCX on stand 24 for 48 hours with the Air Malta on 25 for 48 hours, Excel on 12 for 48 hours and a night-stopping DP on stand 5 until 1735 the next day. Two Easyjet night-stoppers on 8 and 11 which don't depart until 1430 and 1735 respectively. TCX bring an extra A320 in to exchange with the original one. SO, that's 7 large stands taken out of the picture. So the whole days' operation has to be squashed into 13 stands, and don't forget this leaves only 21, 10 and 4L (if 4 isn't being used) to use as self-manouevring stands for the a/c for which there aren't any towbars. See what I mean, W and Rampboy????
