Originally Posted by
chaps1954
Leeds gets low cloud we get fog, it`s just the position of the airfield, as soon as low viz comes in a 2 runway airport loses a very large percentage of the movements, when flow control comes in places like LGW very busy single runway and LHR and MAN and to an extent BHX and LTN
can suffer.
I thought Church Fenton used to be bad for fog with being in the Vale of York
Ian
LBA and MAN are incomparable when it comes to diversion rate. Diverted passenger per passenger handled and number of weather affected days as you would expect at vastly different elevations and factoring in LBAs short exactly perpendicular to prevailing wind runway.
Yes there will be weather related diversions and inefficiency at 'the other thread' but at a less rate than LBA at 700ft. = increased efficiency = improvement.