Sentence examples for runway slots from inspiring English sources

At Europe's busiest airports runway slots are administered by an independent slot co-ordinator.

Bmi is the second-biggest carrier at Heathrow, controlling around 10% of the runway slots.

Lack of runway slots at Heathrow will force people living in the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland to fly long-haul via continental hubs.

The interest of IAG, which also owns the Spanish airline Iberia as well as BA, stems from its desire for additional Heathrow runway slots controlled by Aer Lingus.

With runway slots overlapping, she's still sorting through final confirmations, said her publicist and stylist, Yolande Kelly (though the Tommy Hilfiger shows have been a reliable place to catch a famous athlete the last few seasons).

But the airline, based in San Francisco, still faces the same hurdle that has daunted previous start-ups: getting access to scarce runway slots and terminal gates at some of the nation's biggest and busiest airports.

Operational capacity of an airport can be measured as the number of runway-taxiways slots, the terminal capacity or capacity of the apron areas.

If it had been built in Buckinghamshire, London would now have an airport equal to anything that Paris, Amsterdam or Frankfurt could produce.Patrick ArnoldLondonSIR – The main problem at Heathrow is a lack of runways and therefore slots for landing and take-off.

The report added that Heathrow had more demand for take-off slots than runway capacity and passenger numbers had grown 5% over the past five years compared with 27% at UK airports overall.

The plane will also help the carriers squeeze the most out of airports like those in London and Tokyo, which suffer from a dire shortage of landing slots and runways.

"Do you redesign the airspace around the technology or do you redesign the technology to fit the airspace?" With a missed slot on a Heathrow runway costing its owner £500,000, Nats cannot afford to slow down.