Conservation group wants end to overland stacking
19.06.08
Planes waiting to land at airports in the East of England should stack up over land, a conservation group has told a review of UK airspace. The call comes as the extended public consultation on the plans ends today.
The National Air Traffic Service (NATS) is consulting on plans to redraw flight routes for London City, Heathrow, Stansted and Luton Airport, which will allow the use of stacking over land. But the Suffolk Preservation Society (SPS) said if planes need to stack whilst they wait to land, they should do so over the sea.
SPS director Richard Ward said that as air traffic continues to grow a more radical approach is needed to the issue of aircraft stacking. In his letter to NATS he said that if stacking aircraft in the skies prior to landing has to continue, it should do so only over the sea, away from populated areas.
The consultation period closes today. The Civil Aviation Authority will now decide whether the changes can go ahead. If approved, the changes would become operational in the Spring 2009.
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