www.Parctel.com: On Saturday 21 April 2007, air traffic control operations will move to a state of the art new £50m facility, designed as part of the Terminal 5 project.
Air traffic controllers have undergone an extensive training programme in advance of the move to familiarise themselves with the new view of the airport and new equipment. As a precautionary measure, to ensure the change in operations is undertaken as safely as possible the airport will operate a temporary reduced landing rate.
Reduced landing rates will create additional demand on the peak early morning/evening periods. In order to ease potential disruption, a small number of aircraft will be permitted to arrive early between 5am and 6am in the morning, in addition to the usual flights landing in this period and in the event of a build up of delay, a small number of arrivals and departures after 1130 pm at night.
BAA, NATS and the airlines are working together to ensure that these night time arrivals/departures are kept to a minimum and that normal operations are restored as quickly as possible.
These short term changes are expected to be necessary for a few days after transition.
“We acknowledge that for some local residents this will have an effect on the level of aircraft noise that they experience. We sincerely apologise for the disturbance to local residents during this necessary change to operations.” Mark Bullock, Managing Director said.
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