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Originally Posted by denizen467
Looking ahead: After 2015, will ORD be the only airport in the world with enough horizontal separation to comfortably and continuously land 4 flights simultaneously?
And could they end up doing any operations this way? Or will departure capacity, or something else, preclude that?
I love driving northern LSD and looking up and seeing 3 parallel armadas of passenger jets coming in off Lake Michigan, ever since the far north runway opened five years ago. Now just imagine 4 of them.
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Denver has enough space but the 6 runways are laid out in pin-wheel so they can have simultaneous departures and arrivals on parallel runways regardless of wind direction.
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