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Airspace information: transparency about airspace use and aircraft movements

Aviation industry ongoing operations

Please find this information by clicking on the organisations below: Belfast International Birmingham Bristol Edinburgh Gatwick Glasgow Heathrow Luton Manchester NATS Stansted If you have any questions about the information above, email airspace.policy@caa.co.uk This information was last updated: April 2026.

Swanwick airspace improvement programme L5250 - Airspace Deployment 1

Proposal involving changes to ATS routes and STARs within existing Controlled Airspace (CAS)

Sponsor: NATS Description: New RNAV1 ATS routes and new RNAV1 Standard Arrival Routes (STARs) for traffic arriving into Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, Stansted, Northolt and Cambridge from the south-west of the London Terminal Control Area.

Improvements in airport accessibility continues since pandemic, with “more work to do” as demand increases

Annual report from the UK Civil Aviation Authority shows standards increasing with no airports currently in the lowest category.

London Heathrow has received a ‘good’ rating, progressing on its ‘needs improvement’ rating from 2022/2023, after investing in a significant number of staff for their accessibility support services.

CAST Introduction

Introduction to the Combined Aerodrome Safeguarding Team

It was the brain child of Diane Jackson (MAG), Matt Roberts (East Midlands), Simon Vince (Heathrow) & Amanda Purdye (Gatwick) and fulfilled a need for an all inclusive group of people from all areas of industry that had an aerodrome safeguarding involvement.

UK flight punctuality statistics notes

Scope and calculation of punctuality statistics

The Civil Aviation Authority publishes punctuality statistics for the following airports: Aberdeen, Belfast City (George Best), Belfast International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cardiff Wales, Doncaster Sheffield, Durham Tees Valley, East Midlands International, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow, Isle of Man, Jersey, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool (John Lennon), London City, Luton, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton, Southend and Stansted.

Related regulation

Pilot Common Project Regulation

Assimilated Regulation (EU) No. 716/2014 (the Pilot Common Project -PCP)  Assimilated Regulation (EU) No. 716/2014 (Pilot Common Project -PCP) mandates technology roll out across different areas of air traffic management (ATM) with specific implementation dates, which apply to all operational stakeholders referred to in the regulation, the UK’s largest airports (Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester) and NATS. 

Gatwick licence and monitoring

Details on Gatwick economic licence and monitoring

Documents relating to the requirement are below: Gatwick - additional guidance for operation resilience plans required under Condition C1 of the licence and Condition 7 of Gatwick Airport Conditions of Use (September 2014) Gatwick - consultation on additional guidance for operational resilience plans (July 2014) response from Gatwick Airport response from Gatwick ACC Review of operational resilience at Heathrow and Gatwick - report by Steer Davies Gleave (July 2014) Service quality at Gatwick GAL pays rebates to airlines if its service quality does not reach specific standards.

CAST Executive Team

In the last five years, Caroline has designed the movement of traffic within the airport environment and been part of a team to run economic analysis associated with Heathrow’s third runway.

Aircraft noise certificate

How to apply

London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London Stansted Airports Noise Restrictions Notice At the start of each summer and winter season the London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London Stansted Airports Noise Restrictions Notice is published.

Regulator’s independent review to consider wider impact of NATS technical issue

An independent review into NATS’ technical issue on 28 August has been launched by the UK Civil Aviation Authority. 

He was previously chair of slot coordinator, Airport Coordination Limited, and the Heathrow Consumer Challenge Board, and recently completed his term as Chair of Transport Focus.