Ladacan Muppet

[nickmanl]

"Roger Wood, spokesman for Luton and District Association for the Control of Aircraft (LADACAN), also labelled reports the airport was planning to expand to 30 million passengers in the future as 'ridiculous'.

He said: "Luton Airport could not expand to take that many passengers in the short term. To be able to do that it would need to expand its runway 1km in Hertfordshire and to do that it would need planning permission from councils which oppose it."

Why do people automatically think runways need to be extended to create more capacity?

The only thing Luton needs is more gates and a parrallel taxiway!

Take Stansted for example. I know it has a much longer runway than Luton, but the aircraft that fly there and contribute to its 16 million passengers a year could quite easily fly to Luton's 7,000ft runway.

[ebenezer]

Quite agree. But then these NIMBY groups generally, aren't interested in quoting from reality but rather, they specialise in mis-quoting, quoting out of context and trying to get a reaction to scare stories.

However, in order to cater for such massive expansion of flights, not just taxiways and aprons would need building but also the controlled airspace structure around Luton and the airport's interaction with other airports such as Stansted and London City would need a fundamental re-organisation, something that would probably take four or five years to accomplish and would no doubt, be vigorously opposed on environmental grounds, by these same NIMBYs.

Then there's the local roads...

:hmm:

[LTNman]

If he had said that to expand to 30 million new terminals, aprons and taxiways would need to be built in Hertfordshire then he would have been correct.