Flight path changes could result in fewer delays and faster flights
Plans from the government to fast-track the remodelling of flight paths could result in fewer delays for passengers and faster flights overall. Ministers are expected to announce the creation of the UK Airspace Design Service (UKADS), which plans to re-design the paths that planes are required to take over the country’s airspace. Many of the flight paths were decided around 70 years ago.
The flight path shake-up will begin with modernising the complicated airspace in and around the capital. But Cagne, a community aviation and environment group for Kent, Surrey, and Sussex, has warned that these plans could result in new flight paths over houses that are not currently affected.
Ministers say that the plans could result in planes climbing faster during take-off and descend more smoothly. The plans are also aimed at reducing climate change from the sector, paving the way for new technologies including flying taxis.
“Modernising our airspace is also one of the simplest ways to help reduce pollution from flying and will set the industry up for a long-term, sustainable future,” Aviation Minister Mike Kane said.
The changes would result in the biggest ever redesign of the country’s airspace since it was first created in the 1950s. At that time there were only around 200,000 annual flights, nothing compared with the around 2.7 million in British airspace. The government expects UKADS to be operational by the end of the year.
These changes are “long overdue,” Tim Alderslade, the head of trade body Airlines UK said. “We look forward to working with ministers and all parts of UK aviation to complete a once in a generation infrastructure programme as quickly as possible and ideally by the end of the decade,” he added.
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