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Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL ... Map of London Heathrow Airport showing proposed extension and third runway: Image title: Map of London ...
Map of Heathrow Airport showing the original proposed extension and third runway; T1 and T2 operations have since merged into the new T2 terminal. In January 2009, the then Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon announced that the UK government supported the expansion of Heathrow by building a third runway, 2,200 m (7,218 ft) long serving a new passenger terminal, a hub for public and private ...
The Ockham stack in Surrey is for arrivals from the south west. It uses the RNAV waypoint OCK (co-located with the OCK VOR), which is situated on the former Wisley Airfield . During typical easterly operations, the proximity of arrival traffic via OCK requires departures from Heathrow's runway 09R towards the Compton VOR (CPT) to follow a non ...
Heathrow Airport (/ ˌ h iː θ ˈ r oʊ, ˈ h iː θ r oʊ /), [6] called London Airport until 1966 (IATA: LHR, ICAO: EGLL), [7] and now known as London Heathrow, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
Heathrow's two main east-west runways, 10L/28R and 10R/28L (later redesignated 09L/27R and 09R/27L) were also extended to their current lengths to accommodate new large jets such as the Boeing 747. [42] The other runways were closed to facilitate terminal expansion, except for Runway 23, which remained available for crosswind landings until 2002.
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Several locations for a new airport have been proposed in the Thames Estuary, to the east of London. These include Maplin Sands off Foulness on the north side of the estuary; Cliffe and the Isle of Grain in Kent on the south side; and artificial islands located off the Isle of Sheppey such as the " Boris Island " proposal championed by Boris ...