New Madrid Barajas Airport opens Feb 5, 2006

15L-33R and 15R-33L are separated by 1,9000 meters (1,18 miles ) from
runaway axis to axis .

18R-36L 14268 ft - 4350 meters long . LONGEST COMERCIAL RUNAWAY IN
EUROPE .
18L-36R 12136 ft - 3700 meters
15-33 13448 ft - 4100 meters

All four are 60 meters wide , fast exits , A-380 ready , ILS CAT III

They are certificated to run TOTALLY INDEPENDENT operations according
to law .

The law allows 1 landing every 60 seconds on ONE RUNAWAY . If the
parallel runway it's at a sufficient distance ( they are ) it's allowed
a landing in the other parallel runaway 30 seconds spaced , that
means . land A ---- 30 seconds ----- land B ------ 30 seconds -------
land A ---- 30 seconds ---- land B ---- 30 seconds --- .

This allow a teorical MAX of 120 landings per hour . Take off are
TOTALLY independent because of the unique runaway design . The spacing
between take off depends more on the type/size of the previous plane ,
and other factors .

But because the airport limit it's measure as the MAXIMUN of landings ,
120 operations per hour it's the nominal peak . But in practical terms
, if needed , it could reach more than 200 operations /hours ( counting
Take Offs as well as landings ) .

The design was made by Black & Veatch , and US consulting agency .

http://www.bv.com/services/projects/...ort/madrid.asp


As far as i know , it's unique in the world , but it's expected to
deliver very high performance .