{"id":5744,"date":"2019-10-15T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:34:54","slug":"feel-free-to-use-luton-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/feel-free-to-use-luton-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"London Luton now available for night flights again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The summer ban on GA\/BA night flights ended on Oct 1, and the airport is now available H24 again.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout last year\u2019s winter period there was a strict weekly quota on how many ad-hoc flights were allowed to operate at night, but this has been increased significantly this year, so there should be no problem getting night slots now.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/EG-eSUP-2019-012-en-GB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nighttime noise restrictions<\/a> for <strong>EGLL\/Heathrow<\/strong>, <strong>EGKK\/Gatwick<\/strong>, and <strong>EGSS\/Stansted<\/strong>\u00a0are still in place, making nighttime GA\/BA operations to these airports limited.<\/p>\n<h4>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the current restrictions:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>EGMC\/Southend<\/strong> (40 miles from London) &amp; <strong>EGBB\/Birmingham<\/strong> (115 miles from London) are the <strong>only\u00a0<\/strong>airports with\u00a0<strong>no restrictions<\/strong>\u00a0(thus far).<\/li>\n<li><strong>EGLL\/Heathrow<\/strong>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<strong>EGGK\/Gatwick<\/strong>: Pretty much a no-go zone for business aviation these days<\/li>\n<li><strong>EGLC\/London City<\/strong>: closed from 1030pm to 0630am<\/li>\n<li><strong>EGWU\/Northolt<\/strong>: closed from 8pm to 8am on weekdays (although the airport is currently closed to all flights until mid-November for runway and apron refurbishments)<\/li>\n<li><strong>EGLF\/Farnborough<\/strong>: closed from 10pm to 7am on weekdays<\/li>\n<li><strong>EGKB\/Biggin Hill<\/strong>: closed from 11pm to 6.30am on weekdays, and 10pm to 8am on weekends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Further Reading:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.london-luton.co.uk\/corporate\/community\/noise\/night-noise-disturbance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luton Airport&#8217;s policy on night noise disturbance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Owners of Luton Airport want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-50001028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">build a second terminal<\/a>\u00a0and increase passenger numbers to 32 million a year by 2039.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer ban on GA\/BA night flights ended on Oct 1, and the airport is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[933,1162,1157,1161,1160,1156,1163,1143],"class_list":{"0":"post-5744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-eggw","9":"tag-egkb","10":"tag-egkk","11":"tag-eglc","12":"tag-eglf","13":"tag-egll","14":"tag-egmc","15":"tag-london"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}