The Bay Runway at JFK is Complete

One word: Yay!

The Bay Runway (13R/31L) at JFK in New York that was closed in March has now reopened. This was a big deal because the runway is the airport's busiest. To help out, the largest carriers decided to fly reduced schedules until yesterday. So now, things can return to normal.

Improvements include the runway being widened by 200 feet to better accommodate the A380 superjumbo. Some new taxiways have been added that should get landing airplanes off the runway faster and hopefully improve on-time performance.

But we're not out of the woods yet - the Bay Runway and another intersecting runway will be closed for a couple of weeks in the end of September to complete the project. But this was clearly the worst part of the job, and it was done on time. Nice.

More at NYCAviation.