Edinburgh Runway Work Complete

Scotland's busiest airport runway has been completed on budget and ahead of schedule. Edinburgh Airport's runway handles 115,000 flights a year and work began in April this year and was set for completion on November 31. At a cost of 16 million the resurfacing project was carried out in phases during the night with flights using the airports secondary runway while work was taking place. The project involved laying 25,000 tonnes of asphalt and replacing more than 1000 runway lights, and will extend the life of the runway for a 15 years.