Gatwick Airport: Night Flying

(asked on 18th April 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) night period and (b) night quota period aircraft movements there were at Gatwick Airport for each International Air Transport Association season between winter (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2015-16.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 26th April 2016

The Government only sets restrictions on the number of flights between the hours of 2330 – 0600 - in the period known as night quota period and therefore we only have movement figures for this and not the wider night period hours of 2300 – 0700.

It should be noted that some flights take place during the night quota period but do not count towards the movement limits under the night flight restrictions. These include movements due to certain types of delays, to those issued dispensations by the Government, or to those by aircraft below a certain noise volume.

Two figures are given below for each aircraft season. The first refers to those that count towards the night movement limits at Gatwick Airport, and the second is the total number of movements that did not count towards these limits. This information is also available on the Gatwick Airport website: http://www.gatwickairport.com/

Period

Number of movements

Total number

Winter 2007/08

2929

62

Summer 2008

10618

90

Winter 2008/09

2145

62

Summer 2009

9099

76

Winter 2009/10

2199

103

Summer 2010

9875

120

Winter 2010/11

2160

91

Summer 2011

9859

85

Winter 2011/12

1411

62

Summer 2012

9837

92

Winter 2012/13

1603

53

Summer 2013

9998

96

Winter 2013/14

1510

83

Summer 2014

11147

138

Winter 2014/15

1756

135

Summer 2015

11149

401

Winter 2015/16

1872

169

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