FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Frankfurt Airport inaugurates its long-awaited fourth runway Friday after a euro760 million ($1.05 billion) construction project that involved building taxiways over a busy road, planting hundreds of acres of replacement trees and relocating wildlife including frogs and salamanders.
The first user of the landings-only strip is expected to be Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government plane is scheduled to land before the ceremonies.
The airport says the new runway, parallel to two existing ones but about a mile (1.5 kilometers) away, will boost capacity by 50 percent, from 83 takeoffs and landings per hour to a potential 126, and from the current 53 million passengers a year to 88.6 million by 2020. The airport says it now has peak demand that it can't meet of up to 100 takeoffs and landings.
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The first user of the landings-only strip is expected to be Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government plane is scheduled to land before the ceremonies.
The airport says the new runway, parallel to two existing ones but about a mile (1.5 kilometers) away, will boost capacity by 50 percent, from 83 takeoffs and landings per hour to a potential 126, and from the current 53 million passengers a year to 88.6 million by 2020. The airport says it now has peak demand that it can't meet of up to 100 takeoffs and landings.
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