"Malcolm Weir" wrote in message


Los Angeles International Airport has FOUR parallel runways. It ain't
a big deal, despite what the doom-sayers claim.

Quite a few airports have four parallel runways, or more specifically, two
widely-spaced pairs of closely-spaced parallel runways. LAX is an example of
this, in quite a constrained, congested site, not unlike LHR. But Atlanta
has thr same layout and I believe thay're now building a fifth parallel
runway to the south. CDG also has four runways with this layout, though I'm
not sure if all four are yet operational. Even worse, Chicago O'Hare (ORD)
has five runways, which include two intersecting pairs of parallel runways
(http://www.oharenoise.org/Images/ord_alay.gif).