Night Flights: Regional Airports

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 March 2017.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling The Secretary of State for Transport 12:00, 30 March 2017

The big difference that will come from the airspace modernisation programme is that by moving from systems that are 50 years out of date to ones that use the most modern technology, it will be possible to manage approaches to and departure paths from airports much more exactly, to provide more variation for local communities and to deliver a much smarter way of managing our aviation as a whole. That is why we are consulting on what will be a big change for this country.