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Old 21st Dec 2020, 16:44
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Happy thread with people keen on facts. So shall we endure...

The Prague airport re-construction of 1960-1963 that overlapped the original triangular, British-military-like runway configuration and enlarged its area to the north significantly already planned for a parallel set of 24R/L. Only the northern one (present 24/06) outside the contemporary boundaries had been built, as the construction of the southern one would had shut down the whole airport for about 2 years, intersecting the original triangle in half, and the need for it was not foreseen for some decades then.

The Prague City Master Urban Planning document entered the southern parallel runway - the faulty PR for which is this thread's topic - in 1972. In a sense, the OP is very correct that no new plans for airport development were brewing in 2002, as what had been signed and sealed 30 years before his purchasing time is sufficient even today.

Incidentally, when building new runways in Europe, a quarter of century timeframe is par for the course. Cue the development history of F.J. Strauss Airport (MUC) opening in 1992 having been approved by the Bavarian government in 1969.




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