[Uncle Peter]

Originally Posted by beeman

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).



Extra capacity could actually reduce the amount of traffic in the air due to the reduced hold que

Good point