Originally Posted by
AerRyan
I still find it quite funny that Heathrow actually has alot more capacity they are just not allowed to use it! Takeoffs and landings should be allowed simultaneously from both runways, adding alot more capacity and cutting the cost by alot!
Studies and simulations showed that mixed mode on Heathrow's current runways would only produce a fairly modest increase in capacity of about 60,000 ATMs pa on top of the current limit of 480,000.
http://www.pprune.org/atc-issues/252...-heathrow.html