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3 airports opening new runways amid economic woes (AP)
Thursday, 20 November 2008

A worker at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport walks along a new runway Nov. 12, 2008, set to open on Thursday, Nov. 20. It is one of three multimillion-dollar runways are set to open at U.S. airports Thursday, but the immediate impact aviation officials touted when plans got off the ground will be stunted amid global economic woes that have fewer people taking to the skies. The other two are at Dulles in Washington, D.C. and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Alarm in the aviation industry over a projected 10 percent drop in domestic flights this winter hasn't derailed plans to open multimillion-dollar runways at three U.S. airports Thursday.