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Old 3rd Feb 2011, 21:19
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ILS25
 
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Runway is in a bad state, constantly needs patching. Funny, I was watching an episode of Luton Airport on Sky the other day and they were resurfacing a stretch of runway 100m X 30m. They closed the runway at midnight, stripped off the old tarmac down to the concrete base, cut tracks for AGL cables, installed new bases for AGL fittings, resurfaced and had the runway open for the first landing traffic at 5 am. 5 hours work.

In comparison BFS had 100m X 30m of runway resurfaced abeam bravo taxiway 2 weeks ago. Less work needed done (no replacement of AGL) and it took them over 24 hours, ok BFS have the luxury of another runway but I would say it's going to be fun when they do resurface 25/07, so if they say It's going to take 2 months,expect it to be 3.
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