What is the rate of movements per hour at Heathrow? Any ideas.. It must be a fair bit higher than SYD as they have a lot more passengers but also LHR has plenty more gates to park aircraft which solves a lot of delay issues.
Here is an interesting proposal from Heathrow airport's wikipedia page:
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In order to increase the number of flights, BAA have proposed using the existing two runways in 'mixed mode' whereby aircraft would be allowed to take-off and land on the same runway. This would increase the airport's capacity from its current 480,000 movements per year to as many as 550,000
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathro...ort#Operations
Could something similar be adopted for SYD to increase its capacity to allow room for the anticipated growth to come. SYD had 289,741 movements in 2009. So Andi this is how it could possible work for SYD.