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Heathrow's 3rd Runway expansion plans

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EHM-2155 Mariano:
I think more runways actually save in CO2 emissions...
Think about it... in a crowded airspace like London, you have airplanes circling around in holding patterns many times wasting fuel. If there was a way to bring them down faster, thats a lot of fuel saved... provided that they dont take the new runways as an excuse to bring in more airplanes a day. That should remain unaltered.

EHM-0654 Murray:

--- Quote from: EHM-1001 Robert on June 23, 2009, 10:38:51 pm ---I guess it is already planned by officials, but I think optimizing SID and STAR routes will be necessary too. Maybe you could prepare an analization of current departure and approach corsaes and estimate new ones for the 3rd runway...

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Funnily enough, for the rwy proposal I saw on the news ages ago (#3 to the north of the current northern rwy) all the STARs would remain the same as they'd be bringing in the traffic to the same FAF. SIDs would need a little modification, but not much.

EHM-2309 Joshua:
Hi Guys,

Sorry that I posted and then never ended up getting back to you. Your posts were all very helpful, and I took them all on board. A good bit of help came from EHM-2155, so much thanks Mariano. I ended up talking about the economic, social and environmental impacts of the 3rd runway and possible terminal 6 expansion.
My teacher has marked it, but wouldnt tell me the exact mark. She said that the IBDP exam board will give it a good 'official' mark as well. I ended up concluding that the expansion should not go ahead, and that another London airport (such as stansted) should be expanded instead, or that London does what other major cities have done (Paris, Hong Kong) and move their major airports further out of the city. Apparently the essay was written from the view point of someone who wanted it to go ahead, to someone who wasnt so sure anymore. But it swayed my teacher into thinking the expansion of Heathrow was a good idea!!

Thanks for all your help,

Joshua
EHM-2309

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