But a runway closing last year at Minneapolis-St.
Those numbers suggest that with the runway closing, some delays could tip over into violations.
Apparently there was a huge storm in Mexico City and a plane skidded off the runway, closing down the airport.
But he said later that his secretary had made a call to the airport and was not told about the runway closing.
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.
Mike Gordon, the mayor of El Segundo, south of the airport, said today that he had been mollified by assurances that his town would not suffer, despite his concern about a facet of the plan that calls for moving the southernmost runway closer to El Segundo to allow room for a new taxiway.
The judge, Richard B. Lowe III, ruled favorably on NBC's claim that it should get relief because the Weinstein Company, the owner of "Project Runway," closed a deal with Lifetime without granting NBC a last opportunity to match the terms of the deal, a right NBC claimed its contract guaranteed.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the airport's chief executive, Colin Matthews, said Heathrow had invested £36m in snow-clearing equipment and was "in no way in the same position as 2010" when a runway closed for nearly four days.
Also on Friday, the runway closed at the airport because of the crash was reopened.
As a result of this and the new larger runway, the smaller 02/20 runway closed in April 1944.
