Originally Posted by
tallpilot
Whom does one pay for a departure procedure? I would suspect that Aerodata provides the runaway analysis to Skywest since they have done so for every airline I've worked for. I would start with them. The improvement you mentioned would help somewhat but there may be something else that would help significantly more (stopway, clearway, etc.). What you can't fix is Denver (my best guess based on the information you gave but whatever hub) weather. If they need to carry an extra hour of fuel for alternate requirements that's passengers they can't carry. You are considering spending money to increase their maximum takeoff weight because that's what is in your control but what if they are landing weight limited instead? You need answers to these questions.
There are companies out there who can build approaches and departures. Alaska Air Group, for example builds a lot of RNPs. You’ll recall the Delta lawsuit over the approaches into Juneau. When you do that the entity who commissioned it becomes responsible for upkeep costs. Not the feds.
Good point about Alternate and holding fuel for DEN and we are aware of that. Our problem as an airport is when they bump 22 people in the summer it destroys passenger confidence in reliability. So we end up “leaking” passengers to other airports. We’re trying to solve the reliability issues and I appreciate your points!