Paragraph 19 Airport operationsI1

From the date of the commencement of dual runway operations, the airport may not be used for more than 389,000 aircraft movements per annum or a passenger throughput of 80.2 million passengers per annum.

The repositioned northern runway must not be used between the hours of 23:00 – 06:00 but may be used between these hours where the main runway is temporarily non-operational by reason of an accident, incident or structural defect or when maintenance to the main runway is being undertaken.

Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the repositioned northern runway must not be used—

Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply and the repositioned northern runway may be used in one or both of the ways stated in that sub-paragraph where the main runway is temporarily non-operational by reason of an accident, incident or structural defect or when maintenance to the main runway is being undertaken.

In this requirement—

• “Code C aircraft” means aircraft with dimensions meeting the maximum specifications of code letter C in the Aerodrome Reference Code table in Annex 14, Volume I to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, as at the date of this Order; and

• “passenger throughput” means the number of passengers that use the airport as part of aircraft movements but excluding persons under the age of two years.