Capacity Analysis 2012 report
2012 capacity figures but nothing much would have changed since then apart from Security where new equipment has boosted capacity despite there being no more lanes until next year.
Departures
2,350 Check-in per hour
2,630 Central Security
With the increasing up-take of on-line check-in and decline in hold baggage (both driven by low cost carriers prevalent at the airport), typically 33% of passengers (and over 50% at certain times of the year) of passengers proceed directly to security without requiring airport check-in. The check-in facility therefore only handles, at maximum, 67% of departing passengers.
Arrivals
1,810 Immigration
1,370 Baggage reclaim international
250 Baggage reclaim domestic
As with check-in above the stated capacity relates to the capacity of the reclaim infrastructure and excludes the proportion of passengers without hold luggage. Based upon the observed proportion, the effective capacities of the reclaim facilities increase to 1,960 for international arrivals and 700 for domestic.
Highway Capacity
Around 1,000 one-way vehicles per hour.
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.
Runway 30-34 ATM's per hour
Apron 30+ ATM's per hour
Runway-Taxiway-Apron Network
The modelling of runway capacity established that 30 to 34 two-way peak hour aircraft movements could be achieved. This single peak hour however could not be sustained. A longer busy period would not enable accumulated delay to dissipate before breaching the 10 minute average delay criterion across this period.