Farnborough Show News - July 14, 2008 - (Page 70)

BUSINESS AVIATION FA R N B O R O U G H 2 0 0 8 TAG Farnborough would have reached its cap of 28,000 annual movements had single-engine aircraft not already been excluded. TAG Farnborough Seeks to Raise Current Cap TAG Aviation’s Farnborough Air- ments. “We could never achieve industry and residents, and under port is suffering from its own that because we have noise con- UK law any airport registering over success. This UK business aviation- straints, public safety zones at each 20,000 movements annually has to only airport is so popular that it will, end of the runways, and air quality produce a masterplan. This has to for the first time, get very, very close guidelines to maintain. Current cal- detail infrastructure and operational to its 28,000 total annual movements cap. “Ideally we want to operate a business CEO Brandon O’Reilly says sinaviation service for everybody, but as we gle-engined fixed-wing aircraft and operate in a constrained market, that single-engined helicopters are now barred from using the airport, and becomes a more difficult proposition some business aircraft are being when every slot is precious.” turned away, despite its recent suc—Brandon O’Reilly, CEO, TAG Aviation cessful bid to get weekend movements upped from 2,500 to 5,000 per year within the current cap. “If we accepted every flight we would be over 28,000 now,” said O’Reilly. Two Citation Mustang fleet operators, Blink and London Executive Aviation, are based here and O’Reilly says “both seem to be operating successfully under the current guidelines. Ideally we want to operate a business aviation service for everybody, but as we operate in a constrained market, that becomes a more difficult proposition when Gulfstreams remain welcome at TAG Farnborough. every slot is precious.” TA G s p o n s o r e d a s t u d y b y culations show that we would plans for the future up to 2015, and National Air Traffic Services possibly be constrained to 47,000- further indicative plans to 2030. TAG has just completed the first (NATS) using special software to 50,000 movements, but we’re not determine how many aircraft making an application based on phase, a six-week public consultation process which will form part movements could be handled at that,” said O’Reilly. To achieve any progress in get- of its masterplan. “We’re now anaFarnborough given no constraints, and came up with the hypothetical ting the cap lifted means a further lyzing this feedback from the figure of 100,000 annual move- consultation process with local community…and we will then pub70 lish the findings on the consultative committee website. A draft masterplan will be published later this year. We hope to produce the masterplan and lodge it with the Department for Transport in the first quarter next year,” explained O’Reilly. The whole process is a balance between the environmental impact of airport operations against the economic benefit to the community, and TAG’s need to grow beyond its current movement cap. “At the end of the process we will put in a planning application to increase the number of flights. Our long stop is the London 2012 Olympics. We believe we have the infrastructure and can make better use of it,” emphasized O’Reilly. The government inspector who overturned Rushmoor Borough Council’s objection to the change in allowable weekend movements said, “Farnborough airport is of very significant economic benefit to Farnborough and Rushmoor areas.” Although O’Reilly woul not be drawn on how he thought the local area had already benefited from TAG’s substantial airport investment, he noted, “It’s on the record that the 2006 Farnborough Air Show (lasting just a week) pumped in $34 million into the local economy.” —Mike Vines July 14, 2008 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews

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Farnborough Show News - July 14, 2008 Contents Thirty More Years CFM Reveals New Engine Boeing Reduces Forecast UAVs’ Quiet Revolution Finmeccanica: U.S. Success A Plethora of AESAs BAE North America Plus L-3 Becomes a Prime Better Late Than Never A Peek Behind the Curtain China’s J-10 Revealed Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner Breaking LM’s Hegemony

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