, including a southwest end-around taxiway to reduce the need for aircraft to cross runways 36L and 36R at the airport. It’s expected to be completed in 2025.
“We’re currently building our third end-around taxiway and those taxiways are wonderful from an efficiency perspective,” McLaughlin said. “They help us run a more efficient airfield, but the primary reason for them is it prevents the need for airplanes to cross active runways.”pilot who teaches classes at another airline, said he’s never believed there was a relationship between peak travel seasons and runway incursions. Levy was a pilot for 41 years.
He believes these situations generally occur because distractions deflect the attention of the pilot or the air traffic controller. Or, he said, flight crews can experience “expectation bias,” where one or both pilots follow a familiar taxiway route that they expect, despite it not being the taxi route the air traffic controller directed the aircraft to follow.
Major airlines, he said, have safety management systems and train flight crews to manage risk and reduce risk. The rise of social media has made the public more aware of what happens at airports, he said, but statistically speaking, runway incursions do not happen as often as they seem. “These rare occurrences pale in comparison to the approximately 90,000 passenger flights that safely operate daily in the United States, without incident,” Levy said. “That is what the average airline passenger not only expects but also normally experiences.”An incursion warning system tracks airplanes, vehicles and pedestrians at the Integrated Operations Center at DFW International Airport, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023.