Sentence examples for runway expansion from inspiring English sources

A major runway expansion can cost billions of dollars and take up to 20 years because of community opposition.

Identifying the real reason for increased flights is key: it is not business, whatever proponents of runway expansion tell you.

Of course a runway expansion must stand as a monument to man's will to imprint himself on the world.

Greens Calling for the rail network to return to total public ownership and have ruled out any airport runway expansion.

Because of the increasingly active legal opposition to airport expansion by residents in adjacent communities, many runway expansion projects have been delayed or abandoned.

Plane Stupid said the protesters – one of whom was dressed as a polar bear – were campaigning against runway expansion, and further protests would follow.

Due to increasing traffic, several runway expansions are planned, including an 843 m extension of the north-south runway to lengthen it to 4500 m, and a 1214 m extension of the east west runway to a total of 3500 m.

And the third-runway expansion it has long talked of is not its only option for growth.

It is being heavily criticised by environment groups for its proposed building of new runways, expansion of regional airports and failure to shift sufficient freight onto the railways.

We apply the model to the case of runway capacity expansion at Haneda Airport.

Finally, a runway capacity expansion tends to improve the affected airlines' profitability.