As far as traffic is concerned September 11th is now a past event.
I was on Heathrow on Friday morning. Perfect conditions enabled us to peak at a landng rate of 48 and this kept pressure off the system. I wonder how things would have been if there had been a 30kt headwind?
According to the last LCC quarterly bulletin...
In the first quarter of this year there were 23 incidents in TC in which ATC were in some way implicated. Of those, 14 occured on Heathrow and of those, 11 were on the final director. It seems to me to be a fair conclusion that the imbalance of runway capacity and demand through Heathrow is leading to significant pressure and a safety impact. I am told that Heathrow has to hit 96% of its declared runway capacity for every hour of the working day if the airport is to function efficiently. To that end, and without wishing in any way to criticise others who have problems of their own, it would help enormously if this could be remembered when presenting traffic into the southerly stacks.
Point 4
