Terminal amenities– Wi-Fi, restaurants, shops and the like – are neat, but what flyers like most about any airport is the ability to get in, and out, of it rapidly. Thus, this development at Charlotte Douglas International (CLT).
Construction of the airport’s third parallel runway is primed to start. When the 9,000-foot strip is finished (planned for 2010) that will mean the busy North Carolina aerodrome will have the ability to handle three independent arrivals approaches at one time – less circling, less holding. The third runway, contends Charlotte, will automatically boost air service capacity by a third.
There will be two phases of construction. Grading and draining is first. That starts in March. The second phase, the paving and lighting of the runway, gets underway in the spring of 2009.
All this is great news for US Airways flyers. CLT is a major hub for the carrier.
© Cheapflights Ltd Jerry Chandler
