Airports
Oxford Airport's virtual runway extension OK'd
The UK’s Oxford Airport has been approved to increase its licensed runway length by 10 percent to 4,327 feet.

The UK’s Oxford Airport has been approved to increase its licensed runway length by 10 percent to 4,327 feet. This promises to increase significantly the use of the airport by executive charter and public-transport operations.

Privately licensed corporate operators have been able routinely to use Oxford’s full 5,092 feet of runway, but all commercial flights are restricted to the officially licensed runway length of the airport. Business jets as large as the G500, Falcon 900 and Challengers have been able to achieve transatlantic range out of Oxford, which is located about 55 miles northwest of London.