A New Runway Evolves

By Mark Lawrence
Producer of NYCAviation.com

Sitting on the south side of Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport use to be a small General Aviation runway. Just over 5,000’ long and only 100’ wide, it would handle the plethora of small aircraft and biz jets that would frequent the airport, but it could not handle the mainstream commercial operations of the airport. The problem was this was that due to increased traffic and more and more delays at the airport on the main 9,000’ runway,...