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I've been reading from spotty reports that once the midfield terminal is complete that a 4th runway, yes thats right, 4th runway could be built. Just wondering if anybody else has read or heard of this samething

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The 4th runway has been planned for some time but I have no idea when they are actually going to build it. This is the runway that would be built on the other side of I-70.

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Yep. Old news. Look at a google maps satellite view. You'll see how there is clearly no building that has been done in the area that parallels 5/23R on the southeast side of I-70. And as part of the airport project, I-70 was moved in part to accomodate the FedEx expansion but it was done so to also realign it properly for the crossovers that would be needed for the additional runway. The thinking around here has always been that the fourth runway would be built to accomodate FedEx, so the runway will be built when FedEx expands to the point where they need it..

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Prior to the attacks on 9/11 the plan was for the 4th runway to be built somewhere around 2007 or 2008. It obviously got pushed back a bit. I think we'll have that runway before 2015.

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Additional Note: I don't think they spent all that money on road work if there was no need for it for a very long time. The money was spent now because that runway is going to come sooner than most think.

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Yeah thats what I'm guessing. I know it would help out FedEx quite a bit in the long run. I guess within the next 12-18 months they'll prolly start working on it.

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I wouldn't expect it that soon. If I had a guess I'd say 3 to 5 years.

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I wonder what the new runway will be named? Would it be runway 4/22 or 6/24, or would 5R/23L become 5C/23C?

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Eh who knows at this point what they're going to name it. Either way this new upcoming runway addition will def. help out not only Fedex but the airport in its entirety also.

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Yeah, I bet it'll be used for FedEx arrivals and departures almost exclusively.

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Fit2Fly wrote:

I wonder what the new runway will be named? Would it be runway 4/22 or 6/24, or would 5R/23L become 5C/23C?

I know the answer to this

5R/23L would become 5C/23C. I've seen this detailed before. The one I don't remember is what happens in 100 years when they add a dependent runway on the west side of the terminal thats next to 5L/23L. It would become the 4th parallel runway. Though none of us will see it in our lifetime. There is also such a plan for the crosswind runway.

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Whats do the plans call for in regards to the crosswind runway?? I havent heard anything about that.

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It was just a dependent runway along side the current crosswind runway. It was part of the airports long term capacity plan. It is something we'll never see built in our lifetime. I think it just shows where runways can go. I think all airports have such plans.

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yeah your prolly right. Either way be interesting to see all the new change yet to come

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Just for comparison sake, here are a couple of other airports with multiple parallel runways and their designations.

DFW has seven runways. The two crosswind runways on the far east and west sides of the property are not strictly parallel. They are numbered 13/31 R and L but one is 134.1 degrees/314.1 degrees and the other is 130.4/310.4. The other five runways are strictly parallel, though - all 175.4/355.4 degrees. The three runways on the east side of the terminal are numbered 17/35 R, L, and C. The two on the west side of the terminal are numbered 18/36 R and L. I guess you run out of letters once you've used Left, Right, and Center and have to change the numbers even though the runways are exactly parallel.

ATL has five runways that are exactly parallel at 94/274 degrees. The two on the north side of the terminal are numbered 8/26 L and R. The two just to the south of the terminal are numbered 9/27 L and R. And the newest one, further south on the edge of the property, is numbered 10/28.

MCO has four runways, exactly parallel at 4.7/184.7 degrees. They are numbered 18/36 R and L on the west side of the terminal and 17/35 R and L on the east side of the terminal.

IAH has two parallel runways to the southwest of the terminal numbered 15/33 R and L. They also have three exactly parallel runways spread far apart. The two that are located north of the terminal are numbered 8/26 R and L and the third one, to the south of the terminal, is numbered 9/27.

Based on the numbering at the other multi-parallel-runway airports, I would guess we'll have the 11,200-foot runway currently numbered 5L/23R being renumbered to 4/24. Then the other two runways would be numbered 5/23 L and R.

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Boofer wrote:


Based on the numbering at the other multi-parallel-runway airports, I would guess we'll have the 11,200-foot runway currently numbered 5L/23R being renumbered to 4/24. Then the other two runways would be numbered 5/23 L and R.


I had seen the capacity plan before. The plan is to rename the ruwnay 5R/23L to 5C/23C.

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Right, I'm just saying that it contradicts every other multi-parallel-runway airport that I've seen.

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For your viewing pleasure. BTW I am a wealth of useless information

http://www.indairport.org/downloads/capacity/IND.pdf

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I take that back. The FX runway would be 5S/23S. The dependent runway off of 5L/23R would be 5C/23C. I'm going out on a limb here and saying 5C/23C and 14E/32E will never happen.