DukeBen,
All, these issues mentioned for 09/27, wont that be the same for 09R/27L, and/or even worse with Essendon/LAHSO, etc? Not to mention the ever present crosswinds?
Gatwick has a single runway and manages a maximum of 55 per hour.
Use of the wind profiler at MEL could get the time based operations going and increase capacity substantially. The wake turbulence measurement system would support a recat for reduced sep on ARR and DEP.
The new tower was built with parallel 16/34 runways in mind.
I will have to check on that again, but is seems that you would end up with CSPR, but cant remember exactly. Looking at this, it looks like the new tower would have to be moved with a north/south runway.
