In amongst this we have WIP at exits where most of the short-haul traffic needs to vacate in order to keep the arrival rate high. Even some of the heavy traffic vacate at the wip exits if they are light, so why not co-ordinate a bit more traffic onto 09R ? Do atc still have restrictions on operating deps from 09L and arrivals onto 09R - I seem to remember reading something recently that suggested this ought to be possible in the near future ?
That's a fine idea but what do you suppose we should do with all the departures?
For a lot of the afternoon yesterday there was 10-20 minutes outbound delay despite which we were taking landers on the right.
If there were more then the outbound delay would build to the point where there are no stands for the inbounds to park on.
There are rules regarding when we can land on the departure runway on westerlies which relate to the amount of inbound delay. There are no such restrictions on easterlies except the common sense restrictions imposed by the balancing act.
Its all about balance. The WIP is a royal pain in the arse but it needs doing and its unfortunate that it has a far greater affect on easterlies.
We had 3.5nm spacing which was working ok but when the spacing delivered isn't the advertised product then there are no get outs. There were a few missed approaches yesterday caused by a combination of optimistic spacing and crews not flying the assigned speed.
As for the runway inspection regime we don't think much of it either but it's their airport to run as they wish. Complaints in writing to HAL.......