General aviation jet Captain reported a traffic conflict when ATC sequenced their aircraft between two airliners on final approach with speed constraints to maintain the spacing. The Captain flew the assigned speed; but the spacing for the aircraft in trail was not able to be maintained and the trailing aircraft was directed to go around to maintain separation.
Synopsis
General aviation jet Captain reported a traffic conflict when ATC sequenced their aircraft between two airliners on final approach with speed constraints to maintain the spacing. The Captain flew the assigned speed; but the spacing for the aircraft in trail was not able to be maintained and the trailing aircraft was directed to go around to maintain separation.
Narrative
Arriving LAS on a busy day. Despite having requested Runway 19R; we were given Runway 26L; the primary commercial air carrier runway. Cleared for the visual approach and maintain 170 knots until 5 mile final. We complied; but I noticed that we only had 3 miles in trail of Aircraft Y and Aircraft Z 2.5 miles behind us. At 5 miles; I mentioned the situational awareness to the PF; and we only slowed to about 130 knots (Vref was 100 I believe). Tower made a comment about us getting off the runway as soon as possible due to traffic behind us; and I replied we would do our best. My recollection is that the first high-speed exit was more than 1/2 way down a 10;000+ foot runway. At approximately 700 AFE; we slowed to Vref + 10 so as to meet our stabilized approach criteria by 500 AFE. Tower then made a snide comment to Aircraft Z following us that Aircraft X 'just threw out the anchor' and they would have to go around. We landed and exited at the high-speed.Suggestions: I don't really blame tower (except for the snide comment); as this was setup by the approach controller putting traffic so close behind us. Please communicate to ATC that if they can't give us runway 19R (the most common business jet runway); then they will have to account for our vastly different approach speed when sequencing us with other traffic.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.