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Gatwick airport overbridge
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-septe mber.org, at 21:33:10 on Mon, 23 Jan 2017, Recliner remarked: In effect, by closing the busier of the two taxiways, you'd be reducing the effective capacity by about 24 gates. At least this slashing of capacity should dramatically reduce the queues at Immigration! How busy is it? I don't recall ever seeing a plane using it. Certainly not the nose-to-tail queue you imagine it to be. Again, you give the impression of never having used Gatwick South. I've flown from it several times. The last occasion the baggage handling system had broken down, and everything was delayed by an hour or two. Of course that taxiway is used by planes using any of the 20 or so gates for which it provides the best route to/from the takeoff and landing runway. If you'd used the South terminal, you'd know that. And when when you're waiting in North pier 6, you don't see any planes (eg, Virgin or Norwegian) from the South terminal passing under the bridge. There's something wrong with the arithmetic. You said that merging the taxi-ways would reduce capacity by 24, and I think we agreed that the total in that bit of the airport was 30, so where's the 6 come from? -- Roland Perry |
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