"runway" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to a long narrow strip of hard ground, usually asphalt or concrete, which has been made and prepared for airplanes to take off and land from. For example, "The airport's new runway is long enough to accommodate large planes."
"How short is the short-short?" Alexander, who came to fame as a runway coach and judge on the television show America's Next Top Model and coached the likes of supermodel Naomi Campbell, is known for showing off his own incredible set of legs.
Britain's largest airport group craves a third runway at Heathrow airport but that is highly unlikely, so every noise it makes on the need for more capacity plays into the hands of Boris Johnson's estuary airport campaign.
"As soon as Altuzarra sent a barely buttoned black-and-white striped one down the runway in New York last September, it instantly felt like the modern-day dress of the season – and one that can easily take you through to dawn".
Just before his promotion to the cabinet Shapps signalled support for a third runway in Heathrow – a significant move given that this went against party policy at the time.
A few days later Greening responded by saying the government remained opposed to a third runway at Heathrow.
So the Tories want a high speed rail line rather than a third runway at Heathrow.
The Davies review is used as a figleaf to avoid talking about airport capacity in London, odd when Miliband's most high-profile contribution to the 2010 manifesto was the no third runway at Heathrow pledge.
At the airport, Kamran and the plane's pilot allegedly directed proceedings, which began when four men decamped from a minivan on the runway to unload the animal cargo.
Situated on the highest part of the island, the runway is a single strip of Tarmac surrounded by fields and ocean.
