Two new stands by summer '19 Yokel and a further 2 for summer '20.
Thank you. Another way of increasing the capacity without needing more stands is an increase in size of aircraft. Not related to TUI but easyJet seems to be doing just that. As recently as 2015 there were five 320s based with the rest 319s. According to an earlier post herein there will be ten 320s this summer and six 319s. Five 320s replacing 319s is nearly the equivalent of a 319 aircraft in numbers of seats. Obviously this doesn't have the flexibility of an additional aircraft but it all helps.
Then there's the night quota to deal with.
As was reported last year, BRS has been designated a level 3 coordinated airport in the summer season beginning summer 2018 (BST) to be effective between 2300 and 0700. Whilst this won't alter the night time noise quota it ought to make the system tighter in terms of scheduling.
The night time noise quota period is between 2330 and 0600 and has two elements.
First there is a movements limit during this period which is 3,000 in summer and 1,000 in winter. The latest available figures on the airport website appear to be for 2016 when 2,704 of the summer movements limit were utilised. The winter period was still current when the monitoring report was published so no details were available for that. However, in the previous five winters the highest use for any one winter was 257 of the 1,000 available.
There is also a night noise points quota based on aircraft type noise. Summer has a cap of 1260 and winter 900. In summer 2016, 1354 of the 1260 were used. There is an arrangement whereby up to 10% of the previous season's cap can be carried over to the next and 10% of the following season's points can be anticipated and utilised as well. So the 94 point overrun in summer 2016 was 'funded' by 10% (90 points) from the previous winter and 4 points of the 90 from the following winter.
The winter quota points are never close to being fully utilised so in practice provide some leeeway for summer. The highest number of winter points used in the past 20 years was in 1998/1999 when 765 were used. In recent years winter usage has been in the very low 100s each winter. Summers have been variable with six of the past 20 summers exceeding the 1260 limit, the last one being in 2010 prior to 2016's overrun.
On top of the above there is a further overriding limit between the hours of 0600-0700 and 2300-2330 in that the number of take-offs and landings must not exceed 10,500 in any calendar year. In 2016 there were 5,182 such movements and in 2015 4,646 so that doesn't appear to represent a problem now or in the immediate future.
With some of these limits already making their presence felt it's an interesting conundrum for the airport to ponder how it will achieve 12 mppa by 2015 and 15-20 mppa in the years after that.
