Construction on Pearson airport’s busiest runway, that led to hundreds of flight delays and cancellations during the month-and-a-half-long overhaul, has been completed. “Our busiest runway is once again operational, and I would like to thank the community, our passengers and our valued airline partners for their patience and cooperation during this work,” Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) CEO and President Howard Eng said in a news release Tuesday. The news release noted that the “the first aircraft to use the rehabilitated surface landed.”Construction on Runway 05/23, the longest and busiest of Pearson’s five runways, began March 28 and included repainting 420 km of single-line markings; removing the runway’s surface to perform subsurface repairs and then repaving it; and removing, repairing and replacing about 1,000 lights. The work was described in the news release as a “critical infrastructure project, required for the safe operation of the airport today and in the future.”

Source: thestar May 17, 2017 00:11 UTC