Another Runway 06 Only Day
This Tuesday morning saw Perth Airport operations on RWY 06 due to strong easterlies and excessive crosswind on RWY 03 again.
Based on the experience of the day that caused this thread to start, Perth Tower reduced the number of available slots for departure from 32 to 26 per hour. (For "RWY 06 only" operations)
This meant that the whole morning departure "push" lasted about 20 mins longer than usual and many aircraft were significantly delayed passed their preferred taxy time.
However times for commencement of taxy to departure averaged 10 mins with a 17 min peak.
Instead of having 16 aeroplanes at the holding point and taxiways burning fuel going nowhere, we had a maximum of 8, which was manageable but provided enough airframes to maintain a steady departure flow.
Tomorrow morning looks like another 06 only day, so we will be using the "formula" again to test its validity.