Do you close often?

[vetran]

[SueEllen]

It appears that too many kids are spoilt brats. Perhaps a week or two hiking and camping may work wonders.

You really want to take kids (of whatever age) camping for 7 days?

Do you not like yourself?

[Paddy]

Heathrow Airport to cancel flights on Monday to be quiet during the funeral

[northernladuk]

Heathrow Airport to cancel flights on Monday to be quiet during the funeral

Are they actually cancelling. Radio 4 said they weren't flying 15 mins either side of the funeral so could do that with delays rather than cancellations couldn't they?

[SueEllen]

Are they actually cancelling. Radio 4 said they weren't flying 15 mins either side of the funeral so could do that with delays rather than cancellations couldn't they?

They have to cancel them.

Too many flights leave and land at Heathrow for them to do anything else.

[ladymuck]

Yeah it does seem like a load of flights are being cancelled.

Traffic can easily pause to accommodate a two minute silence but to keep the skies quiet for however long needed has too big a knock-on impact. I suspect the cancellations are only feasible because the airport is running at lower capacity due to the passenger cap.

You could ask why they don't re-route aircraft but the position of the airport doesn't really support that. If operating on westerlies, then all arriving aircraft will have to pass over central london at some point and if operating on easterlies it's departing aircraft making the racket.