There is no restriction to landing on 09R. However, in general we can only depart on 09R due to Cranford. Therefore, in general, the level of outbound demand precludes using 09R for arrivals a lot of the time. It's down to the individual controllers to offer spare capacity to the inbounds.
However, when the delay builds up on easterlies, we tend to use the same level of delay to provide the same rate of arrivals (6 per hour) as on westerlies, hence it can still be referred to as TEAM.
Thanks, the fog is beginning to clear !
I understand the distinction you're making between a planned stream of post-0700 09R landings (to reduce delay) and opportunistic use of 09R for other reasons (e.g. a T4 arrival).
So it would be helpful if the trial stats observed that distinction too. Instead, some days' totals appear to count all 09R landings, including any ad-hoc, isolated non-TEAM movements, but the stats for other easterly days seem to exclude those and only count TEAM.
there is a great deal of misinformation about Operational Freedoms and what is happening at LHR
You're not wrong there.