Originally Posted by
Quartz-1
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?
This is not always the case & many airports have taxiways which are not parallel to the runways.