American Airlines expands Charlotte hub with sensor‑filled runway project
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American Airlines runs more than 670 daily departures from Charlotte Douglas International Airport, which currently has three parallel runways measuring 8,677 ft, 10,000 ft and 9,000 ft.
In 2023 the airport broke ground on a new runway, 19C/01C, positioned between the two 19‑series runways; the design was reduced from an original 12,000 ft length to 10,000 ft, with a projected cost of $1 billion and a target completion in fall 2027, while about 2,000 sensors are being installed to feed real‑time data into a Digital Twin model.