# The Gatwick Airport (Northern Runway Project) Development Consent Order 2025, Paragraph 19: Airport operations

Extent: E+W

(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the repositioned northern runway must not be used—
(a) for aircraft landings; or
(b) for departures of aircraft larger than Code C aircraft.
(4) 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.
(5) 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1054/schedule/2/paragraph/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/gatwick-airport-northern-runway-project-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-19
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