The 1996 Minnesota Legislature directed the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) to implement the 2010 Long Term Comprehensive Plan for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP). The comprehensive plan includes the addition of another runway the north-south runway to the airport. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has completed a 21-month study of how the airspace around the airport would accommodate the addition of that new runway at MSP. This document summarizes that study. In summary, the FAA MSP airspace study found that: the existing airspace can be reconfigured to accommodate a new north-south runway; by adding either a new jet arrival fix or new parallel jet arrival stream the airspace can be made more efficient, which could decrease the average delay by one-tenth to seven-tenths of a minute per aircraft; of the two alternative airspace configurations studied, the New Arrival Fix alternative performs the best, providing the least delay; none of the satellite airports are expected to be adversely impacted by changing the existing airspace to accommodate a new north-south runway; aircraft flying between satellite airports which currently fly over the top of MSP would no longer be able to take that direct route with the north-south runway in place; the changed airspace would mean that about 40 to 50 general aviation aircraft a day would be required to fly in a 15-mile arc around MSP adding 25 to 30 miles of flying distance for each operation; another 100 general aviation aircraft per day would have an added 10 miles of flying because of the descent area necessary for the north-south runway; and the addition of the runway would result in a change in the Class B or protected airspace, likely increasing its total radius from 20 to 30 nautical miles and increasing its ceiling from 8,000 feet to 10,000 feet.
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Airport Capacity Enhancement Terminal Airspace Study, Summary Report
1996
24 pages
Report
No indication
English
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