Quiz Question: Economics of Airport Runway Overruns
Quiz question for readers. First, however, a
quote:
"In the past 25 years, at least one aircraft a month overran a runway somewhere in the world - one aircraft a month," said Wendy Tadros, chair of the [Transport Canada Safety Board]. "As the trend continues, aircraft are bound to overrun Canadian runways."
Assuming there are 28,537 commercial flights per day in the U.S. (
source), and making appropriate assumptions to come up with the number of commercial flights per day worldwide, how much should Canadians be willing to spend to builder longer runways?
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