Originally Posted by
indie cent
Somewhat ironically, as Frank so aptly illustrated, the third runway allows for respite. Coupled with steep(-er) approaches and the next gen 787, 350 320neo and 777X the low noise contours would be worth the enormous economic benefit - Trying to explain this to the local political groups is another matter though!
I'm not sure where the irony part comes from, but the basis for the opposition from local and campaign groups is that alternation respite with R3 is halved compared to currently, from 50% of the time to 25%. It's not rocket science.