Southend has a non standard runway width of 37m instead of the more common 45m which can also limit aircraft types. While indeed the runway is 1856m long the published takeoff run is 1739m in both directions. At the western end there is a starter extension of 135m x30.
Questions:
Why can't this starter extension be added to the TORA or has it already?
Is this because the starter extension is only 30m wide?
Why go to all of the expense of building a runway extension and make the first 135m even narrower than the already narrow 37m runway?
Is the terminal really only 10m wide? I find that hard to believe, surely it has to be more than 10 paces wide.
