Luton Airport:-
NATS review of the airspace surrounding London Luton Airport highlighted the complexity
involved in the management of that airspace and the inter-dependency of the traffic to and from
the South East region. The result of this complexity and interaction is that it is not possible to
isolate and report on the capacity of the airspace relating only to London Luton Airport: Luton is
intrinsically linked to its neighbouring airports and airspace. For Luton arrivals the inter
dependency with Stansted inbound traffic and the shared holding and vectoring areas results in
one airport potentially affecting the traffic of the other. Luton departure traffic is affected by the
coordination with Northolt and London City airports. At busy times, traffic from more than one of
these airports could potentially arrive at the same place, time and level. Therefore coordination
of departures is required.
NATS reports that the London Airspace Management Programme (LAMP) is aware of the
complexity of the interactions at London Luton Airport. LAMP is a series of activities across
airspace and ATM tools designed to significantly improve safety, environmental performance,
service and value across London Terminal Control airspace and in the wider South-East region.
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NATS review of the airspace surrounding London Luton Airport highlighted the complexity
involved in the management of that airspace and the inter-dependency of the traffic to and from
the South East region. The result of this complexity and interaction is that it is not possible to
isolate and report on the capacity of the airspace relating only to London Luton Airport: Luton is
intrinsically linked to its neighbouring airports and airspace. For Luton arrivals the inter
dependency with Stansted inbound traffic and the shared holding and vectoring areas results in
one airport potentially affecting the traffic of the other. Luton departure traffic is affected by the
coordination with Northolt and London City airports. At busy times, traffic from more than one of
these airports could potentially arrive at the same place, time and level. Therefore coordination
of departures is required.
NATS reports that the London Airspace Management Programme (LAMP) is aware of the
complexity of the interactions at London Luton Airport. LAMP is a series of activities across
airspace and ATM tools designed to significantly improve safety, environmental performance,
service and value across London Terminal Control airspace and in the wider South-East region.
Luton Airport Taxi
Runway capacity was modelled using the SIMMOD airfield modelling software package based
upon a forecast busy day schedule. To determine capacity, a suite of schedules was prepared
increasing or decreasing the number of movements whilst retaining the underlying nature of the
base schedule (i.e. maintaining the ratios of based to non-based aircraft and of peak to off-peak
movements), to determine the scheduled throughput at which average delay reached and/or
exceeded 10 minutes.
