Sentence examples for runway traffic from inspiring English sources

The F.A.A. said that an agreement had been reached with airline pilots' groups in a recent dispute involving a decades-old landing procedure that some pilots believe can create potentially unsafe conditions as runway traffic increases.

Richard Norman (Letters, 31 October) suggests among other things that a cheaper option than a ramp over the M25 for Heathrow's third runway is traffic lights, so that vehicles could cross the runway between planes.

London's Gatwick Airport has re-opened after the threat of drones closed its runway to traffic for over 32 hours, affecting at least 115,000 Christmas travellers.

The system is not expected to fare well unless airlines, airport authorities and federal transportation officials work together to buffer passengers from the immediate problems and to build the runways and traffic control systems that could provide a long-term solution.

They also exist within continually larger contexts: The engine is part of the jet, which is part of a system involving runways, air traffic control and an aviation industry.

THE NEWS A runway version of traffic signals will be installed at 20 busy airports to prevent collisions during takeoffs and landings.

Back in the 1960s, the bus I went to school on from Wilmslow to Hale Barns had to cross Manchester airport's runway, which had traffic lights to stop vehicles crossing when a plane was coming.

But the Americans who arrived at Khanabad found a pitted airfield and insufficient runway lighting and traffic-control equipment.

Needed airport construction projects — to maintain runways, build new traffic control towers and upgrade other facilities — have been halted across the country.

Bad weather, congestion on the runway, hamstrung air-traffic control, computer failures and the late arrival of the incoming flight all turn air travel into a lottery.

But Dr. Jensen of the European Environment Agency said that building roads or runways generated more traffic in the long term because greater convenience draws people to a route.