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New Ft. Lauderdale runway to create new aviation jobs
Ground has been broken on the new runway project at the Fort Lauderdale airport, which is expected to significantly increase the aviation traffic in the region as well as airline jobs and technical crew jobs.
The $790 million runway was launched on Monday, with executives from the Federal Aviation Administration and Broward County attending the ceremony. The Broward County Mayor, John Rodstrom, said that the commencement of works was incredible to see, particularly as the project has been some 18 years in the making.
“This has been a topic that has been debated more in our chambers over the last decade than any other topic,” he said.
Greg Mayer, from the Broward County Aviation Department, said that the new runway will dramatically raise the number of take-offs and landings taking place, and will provide a glut of new jobs for the local economy.
He told critics of the project, “If the airport does not increase its runway capacity, its average annual delay is projected to surge from the current rate of 6 minutes to 26 minutes by 2020.”
The 8,000-foot-long runway is expected to be in operation by the end of 2014, and will be wide enough to allow Boeing 747 jets to land there – despite its width of 150 feet being far less than the 195-foot wingspan of the aircraft.
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