Originally Posted by
Dave Noble
Aeroplanes are a nuisance for those living near the airport. Having a curfew is a reaosnable trade off for having a close airport. Not many people are falling over themselves to book flights at 2am - 11pm to 6am close seems reasonable
If you look at Turkish Airlines for example, they generally schedule their 'third world airport flights' e.g. Beiruit at like 2 AM so they can utilise their other planes during the day to Europe and instead of them doing nothing at IST overnight, they fly them over to other countries without a curfew!
I think LHR should make the curfew from 01:00 to 04:00, and allow some more flights while this third runway mess is being dealt with!