Trust me, this is way more difficult that it seems like. That took a lot of engineering and hard work. Kudos to Londoners

@Marco-wb4dd

4 жыл бұрын

DreamsIntoReality nut is it true that at 3 pm the runways switch?

I get it that LHR is extremely busy, and I personally hate using it. Landing can take a while... last flight I took (LAX - LHR), the plane circled 4 or 5 times before going the finally approach.

It would be great if Heathrow could make up its mind about how many flights a day there are. Here we're told that there are around 650 arrivals, and obviously the same number of takeoffs, so around 1300 flights every day on average. But in tonight's ITV documentary, that number has gone up to "more than 1400 plane movements every day". That's approaching 40,000 more flights annually, which is a far from negligible difference. Which is right, and why the discrepancy?

@smack300

8 жыл бұрын

Depends on the day, some aircraft are delayed/cancelled. All these numbers are just an average. It changes day to day. That day they may have had 1400 movements that day and will have less the following day. But for reference, in the last 5 years, they have gone up 20,000 movements.

@davereid2246

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, of course the number of flights varies from day to day. That's why my question is about the average daily number, not the maximum. Those two figures quoted by Heathrow and the programme makers, differing by an average of around 100 flights a day, can't both be right. Very strange.

@davereid2246

8 жыл бұрын

> We hope that clears up any confusion! Yes, it does. Thank you for explaining the difference between "flights" and "movements" in this context. You might want to share that knowledge with your own Twitter team, who not long ago informed the world that there are 1,400 flights every day: twitter.com/HeathrowAirport/status/654018611200290816

@bob_solo

7 жыл бұрын

Are you sleeping better now Dave?

All sounds a bit fraught, complex, dangerous and polluting. So why is Heathrow Airport Holdings wanting to expand by 25,000 flights (68 a day)? In a rational decision-making environment, you don't make a fraught situation worse by throwing more at it; You take growth elsewhere and even migrate load to those elsewheres. Manchester and Birmingham are candidates, but Heathrow Airport Holdings would not want that, would they? But a renationalised trans-UK airports authority would and should entertain it.

@cx5954

4 жыл бұрын

Pat M-S Birmingham is 2 hour drive away so how on earth is that useful and they wanna build an extra runway on Heathrow to avoid stacks