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Originally Posted by bic
Chicago had Meigs Field, Hong Kong had Kai Tak and LGA is about the same distance from Midtown as MIA is from Downtown.
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Originally Posted by pj3000
Chicago, Dallas, NYC... to name a few.
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To name a few? I only see Hong Kong as being the closest example. The American mentioned cities don't have the flight paths that Miami has with the seabreezes from east to west strictly dictating landings and takeoffs, and La Guardia and Dallas-Fort Worth aren't as centrally located in the middle of the city as MIA. So the FAA and MIA were making a big stink about nothing here Miami? The City of Miami and powerful developers, who wanted more bang for their buck, went at it with the FAA and MIA in the last decade and all we could get was 1,010 feet in a relatively narrow patch in the CBD and in the Brickell Financial District that is between the cross hairs of two runways. That is all we could get with today's technology. So I don't see the situation here in Miami as being the same as in the other American cities that the two of you mentioned.
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