Two new concepts for staggered threshold approach procedures could result in a 10 percent increase in airport capacity, according to a study by Eurocontrol and French air navigation services provider DSNA.
Eurocontrol said Thursday that the validation study was based on scenarios from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and was conducted with support from Thales.
One of the validated concepts, static pairwise separation for departures, “tackled increasing departure traffic, with optimised wake turbulence separation minima and improved separation delivery,” Eurocontrol said.
The second concept, dual threshold, “involved landing aircraft on closely spaced dependent parallel runways, using staggered thresholds to help reduce wake separation minima and increase throughput,” Eurocontrol added.
Both concepts were derived from Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research (SESAR) solutions that deal with improving runway and airport throughput, taking into account weathe…
