LUTON - 7

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Luton is looking for IATA Level 3 status. This is their case

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Interesting report commissioned by the airport about existing capacity in all the different parts of the airport. It is really detailed and includes the following:

APRON CAPACITY

This layout provides, depending upon which MARS stands are included, up to 33 stands that are routinely available for commercial passenger and supporting operations. A 10% surplus is retained to accommodate unexpected movements, operational spare aircraft and aircraft visiting for maintenance, and therefore 30 stands are routinely available for commercial passenger operations. In addition to these stands further apron areas are provided for general aviation and cargo operations.
The principal apron areas (Main, North and East Aprons) are accessed from the taxiway “loop” Alpha-Echo-Delta. This taxiway network was modelled to operate in a one-way flow configuration with clockwise circulation employed for Runway 26 operations and anti-clockwise when using Runway 08. During off peak periods it may be possible to operate a two-way flow. However, to avoid conflict during busy periods, a one-way flow was modelled at all times.
All commercial aircraft are parked nose-in requiring push-back to depart. Push-back from the main and northern aprons effectively blocks the free-flow of aircraft taxiing to other stands.

Conclusion
The analysis suggests that the critical constraints are central security and immigration. Even with the proposed expansion, central security capacity is on the verge of being inadequate to sustain the determined one-way runway capacity. With the significant morning out-bound wave as all based aircraft depart, typically at higher than average passengers per aircraft, there is a risk that security capacity would be exceeded leading to either passengers missing their flights, or aircraft being held on stand with consequent delay experienced within the apron-taxiway runway network. Equally, the capacity of the immigration facility may be exceeded during busy arrivals periods. This would increase queuing time through immigration but would not impact runway capacity.

Conclusion
URS observed that the capacity of the road network serving the central terminal zone is approximately 1,000 one-way vehicles per hour. This equates to approximately 850 passenger vehicle movements excluding staff and other non-passenger vehicle movements. This suggests that there is just about sufficient capacity providing declared capacity limits are observed. Any over scheduling will result in congestion in the highway network.