December 18th 03, 09:25 AM
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Massive Airport expansion announced
"Martin" wrote in message
Nigel Pendse wrote:
"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).
Looks like seven runways on the map?
I think that this is the proposed layout after expansion.
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