Nah, its a major industry plot to convert all parallel taxiways to take-off strips and declare runways to landing strips. That gets a 30 to 50% gain in runways without a cent in investment.
If a few brave pilots show the world the way - the masses will follow.
'Airport expansion on the cheap' is the the secret code name of the project - its actually financed by the discount airlines to get the tarif's down at the 1st class airports, where people really want to go. Rumour has it that it is privately financed by Easy, Ryan & Southwest.
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