Originally posted by Airline owner
How much runway does an AN 124 take to land???

The An-124 takes 3000m (9840ft) to take-off generally but this must be full load as I think the Liverpool runway is only around 2500m long. However, that isn’t the main concern. The main problem is that it has to have atleast 4 minutes at the end of the runway to prepare it’s engines prior to take-off, and so there has to be a large gap in the arrivals to allow for this. It’d be ok at an airport such as Liverpool when there is not all that much traffic, but at Stansted it is now a problem. When I first started spotting up Stansted they were in there all the time, but now they are slowly being pushed out because the airport is too busy to have it sitting around on the runway.