Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19687 posts, RR: 56 Reply 1, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 3 days 1 hour ago) and read 1861 times:
Quoting aquablue (Thread starter): How much extra capacity does the 2nd cross runway at LGA provide compared with a single runway operation?
Generally, about 8-12 more arrivals per hour (about 20-25%). The FAA doesn't publish a departure rate, but you'd figure a similar number of departures.
Quoting aquablue (Thread starter): Also, since the runways are at right angles, how do they deal with all the cross wind situations? Are landings or takeoffs done crosswind?
Landings. Though they don't like to use 22 for takeoffs, so then you might see takeoffs on 13 or 31 with a crosswind.
-Mir
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loggat From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 660 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1834 times:
LGA controllers and pilots basically have it down to a science, such that when dual runway operation is in use, the spacing between landing aircraft is the minimum required. ie... 3 miles at the outer marker for 2 likesized category aircraft. This means that no extra room is planned for a departure between the two arrivals. It is just timed that a departing aircraft will roll through the intersection when the next landing aircraft is approximately on a 1 mile final. The system generally works pretty well. It does get a little testy when the arriving aircraft are traveling down the arrival with a tailwind. I have found that the LGA controllers are not too good at compensating for the shortened travel times from the OM to the threshold. I have seen multiple go-arounds because the controllers have given takeoff clearances way too late.
The best configuration is landing 22 and departing 13 because the intersection of the runways is where both a landing and departing aircraft will be out of conflict very quickly.
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aquablue From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 94 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1822 times:
If they had the two runways not crossing, how many more flights / hour could they have?
mmedford From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 524 posts, RR: 9 Reply 7, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1796 times:
Quoting aquablue (Reply 6): If they had the two runways not crossing, how many more flights / hour could they have?
A question; with no definite answer.
Honestly what do you expect from an airport built halfway on a pier between 2 other major airports.
aquablue From United States of America, joined Oct 2009, 94 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1788 times:
Oh come on, why are you being so cynical and snarky to me? If you don't want to talk and you hate my question, don't answer.
I'll ask the question again to someone who is civil.
If LGA had the same layout, but each runway was independent and did not touch, would there be any capacity increases at LGA possible in terms of flights per hour?
loggat From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 660 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1721 times:
There may be a departure rate increase if they were decoupled, but there would not be an arrival increase. The departure rate might go up about 3-7 per hour, would be my guess.
It's just theoretical though, because there is physically no room to do such an undertaking without shortening the runways to a useless length.
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Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19687 posts, RR: 56 Reply 10, posted (1 year 2 months 2 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 1703 times:
Quoting aquablue (Reply 8): If LGA had the same layout, but each runway was independent and did not touch, would there be any capacity increases at LGA possible in terms of flights per hour?
In one wind configuration (the one where the flight paths didn't cross), yes. Otherwise things would stay the same. Kind of a moot point, though, as there's no room to rebuild the airport to that configuration.
-Mir
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pilotpip From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3081 posts, RR: 12 Reply 11, posted (1 year 2 months 1 week 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 1417 times:
Decoupling the runways wouldn't really help as the traffic can still "cross" on go arounds. Take off on 4 and landing on 31 works well too because it's not hard to land and exit before the intersection. Spacing for arriving traffic is far les an issue since most comes in on the Mip and korry arrivals which bring you in from the south. Using 22 means a lot of vectoring. Either over the airport then doglegging to the east, or up the Hudson.
Exceeding crosswind limits knocks the place to 1 runway more than any other weather. When that happens the delays stack up fast. Since I've been based there the delays have been worst on windy days. That extra runway provides much more than 7-10 ops
It all has to do with what JFK is doing more than anything.
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