How can Heathrow so many movements?
Hello,
I'm working on my diploma thesis dealing about the modelling of runway capacities. At the moment I'm trying to validate my simulation results with the declared capacities. Unfortunately regarding London-Heathrow, there is a rather big gap between my results and the "real life values".
When I'm right, Heathrow operates in segregated mode like ,for example, Airport Manchester as well. But how is Heathrow able to handle much more traffic (~85 in contrast to ~65 movements per hour)? Does Heathrow use speacial operations or reduced (radar/wake vortex) separations? Many thanks for your help!