EMAS is fairly common in the US - especially on the shorter runways (I understand we don't have it at SEA because they have 1,000 ft. of overrun - personally I think this might be questionable logic because at the end of that 1,000 ft. is quite a steep drop-off
).
My understanding is MEAS is rather rare outside of North America. Perhaps the international publicity of this incident will help expand the use of EMAS outside of this continent.
It would mean
something positive came out of this train wreck of a presidential election
