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Originally Posted by Hom3r
The biggest problem is NIMBYs, sorry but you move near an airport you have very little to say about expansion.
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It's possible to move from one part of London or Surrey to another without thinking about or even noticing air traffic when you look at the place. Some don't notice until after the first night in their new place when the first big plane coming in wakes them up at around 6am in the morning once the altitude restrictions change.
There can be a huge difference in noise around the edge of a 20 mile radius, depending on where you are on the edge.
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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).
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In theory but over time they will probably add so many more flights that the gains are nullified. I wonder if the airlines would stop buying the biggest planes and use more smaller ones for example.
Is there a higher chance of accidents occurring if they use the same runways for landing and taking off or does it make no difference?
Also I would expect that using the same runway for everything would mean if one thing goes wrong more services would be affected and thus more longer delays. So in that respect a second runway would be better than a dual use single I would have thought.