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Heathrow is the world's busiest two-runway airport

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It takes a very special kind of British administrative masochism to intentionally funnel roughly 80 million people a year onto just two strips of tarmac. While other global transit hubs sprawl out with five or six runways to handle the load, Heathrow stubbornly maxes out its dual-runway capacity. This guarantees that a single delayed baggage cart or a mild drizzle can ruin the travel plans of half the planet.

Heathrow is the world's busiest two-runway airport
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