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Old 11th Jun 2017, 04:06
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Originally Posted by Juggler25
I believe there are plans to bring in the same system as is currently used at Heathrow where aircraft are slowed down in the descent in order to minimise holding. Whether the adjacent ANSP's will be slowing Gatwick traffic down in the cruise for delay as they currently do for Heathrow I'm not sure, however definitely expect it on first contact with London soon.
Yes it is in the pipeline, in theory in exactly the same implementation as XMAN Heathrow. In practice it probably won't actually be done because NATS are refusing to co-operate with any of the arrival managment projects for the other surrounding ANSPs.

Originally Posted by t-bag
Maybe 250 "as soon as you can" is a better way of putting it
For many operators "as soon as you can" equates to "whenever you feel like it".
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