The race against time to resurface London Stansted Airport runway
By Zoie O'Brien and Peter WalkerA team of more than 200 engineers and technicians are halfway through a five-month project to resurface London Stansted Airport.
Work on the 1.9 mile-long runway - equivalent to the size of 25 football pitches - has to be timed meticulously overnight while fewer flights are scheduled.How did we get to this point?The team has worked for 440 hours, during the course of 22 weeks, to resurface the airportAbout 15 million passengers passed through its gates that year, compared with the 28 million expected this year.
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