Sentence examples for a single runway from inspiring English sources

The vast majority of airports around the world have the simplest possible layout, a single runway.

It took three decades of argument and public inquiries before a single runway at Stansted got the go-ahead.

Earnings would amount to $5,000 for a single runway show and six times that for an advertising campaign.

Between 1 May and 20 July, all flights will use a single runway with the other out of action.

Gatwick is constrained to a single runway for another decade, but with a link into Crossrail, Stansted could rival Heathrow.

A screen shows a box that holds two airports, each with a single runway, useable in a single direction.

Gatwick is a single-runway airport, but has a second one on site for use when the main runway is unavailable.

The Gatwick chief executive was speaking as the airport set a record for takeoffs and landings at a single-runway airport and reported a 77% increase in pretax profits to £141m, as passenger numbers grew by 5.5% to 40.8m.

The Sussex hub handled 38.7 million passengers during 2014 and also set a world record for a single-runway airport on 17 August when 906 planes landed or took off in a day.

Telluride's single runway – which sits on a plateau in the Rocky Mountains, next to a heart-stopping, 300m drop to the San Miguel River below – used to be notorious for a giant dip in its centre.

At least 10,000 passengers flying to and from Gatwick had their flights cancelled when the airport's single runway closed following an emergency landing.