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[Article] For airlines, runways are the danger zone

probe · 2008-04-25 08:07:31

The shortage of runway capacity in Ireland (and GB) (which puts a premium on runway access time per flight movement) makes one think that runways are a particularly high risk zone for Irish travellers. NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/business/25safety.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp .probe

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The shortage of runway capacity in Ireland (and GB) (which puts a premium on runway access time per flight movement) makes one think that runways are a particularly high risk zone for Irish travellers.

NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/business/25safety.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

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#2 25-04-2008 09:19PM

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I don't think Dublin traffic has reached anything like the levels of some of the larger US airports who have the complicated job of managing up to 5 active and sometimes crossing runways. Dublin is busy at peak times but will normally operate on just one runway. There haven't been any major incursion problems so far and new apron, taxiway and parallel runway coming online will add hugely to capacity in the coming years.

Also Shannon and Cork still have lots of capacity the regional airports rarely see more than a couple of concurrent arrivals.

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