Gatwick Airport and Heathrow Airport: Air Routes
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the impact on Reigate and Redhill of overlapping flight paths from Heathrow and Gatwick airports; and whether her Department plans to improve coordination between the two airports to reduce aircraft noise over affected residential areas.
Answered by Keir Mather
The Department and Civil Aviation Authority have set up the new UK Airspace Design Service to take forward the airspace change proposals for the complex London airspace, including for Heathrow and Gatwick Airports.
It will deliver interdependent airspace changes in a joined-up way. Modernised airspace will make better use of new technologies to create more direct routes, faster climbs, and reduced need for holding stacks.
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