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Originally Posted by Qtx
The noise can still be bad for people at least 15 miles from Heathrow or Gatwick due to the altitude. They often have to stack and circle the places before landing too so maybe those in that path should be considered for council tax reductions too.
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Extra runways at both these airports would almost totally remove the need to stack the aircraft and so would reduce the noise for people in the stack path. Infact at the moment its not unusual for arriving aircraft to have to hold for 30-60 minuites in the heathrow stack waiting for a slot to land (gatwick's not quite as bad yet but its getting there).
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Can the London TMA and Eurocontrol handle any more traffic though? That's the question. Surely that would have a bearing on how much more capacity an additional runway can add.
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Extra capacity could actually reduce the amount of traffic in the air due to the reduced hold que