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Old 11th Jul 2017, 16:18
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Why are taxi-ways parallel to runways?

Any airport designers in the house?

I was reading this BBC article and this Pprune thread and remembered that Harrison Ford made a similar mistake. In both instances the taxi-way was parallel to the runway. I believe that's normal practice. Why is this? Would it not be safer for taxi-ways to be at an angle to the main runways?
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