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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Chicago O'Hare, Seattle-Tacoma, and Washington Dulles airports open new runways

from USA Today (11/20):

Runways open at Chicago, Seattle, Washington airports
By Alan Levin, USA TODAY

"Three of the nation's busiest airports will open new runways today, creating the largest one-day increase in aviation capacity in more than a decade.

Flights are expected to land on new runway strips today at Chicago O'Hare International, Seattle-Tacoma International and Washington Dulles International.

More runways mean more capacity — the number of planes an airport can handle at peak times. At Seattle alone, the new runway will allow as many as 20 more planes an hour in bad weather — about a 60% increase, according to the airport." ...

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