[Ost-news] The Fort McMurray airport is "bursting at the seams"

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Airport expansion plan set to take off  
[http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/Local%20News/326841.html][1]  
Stories by SARAH FOX  
Today staff  
Friday July 27, 2007

The Fort McMurray airport is bursting at the seams as it welcomes 580,000 passengers a year through its doors.  
This is twice the number the terminal was meant to accommodate when it was built in 1986.  
Officials are currently planning an $80- to $100-million airport expansion which will include building a second runway and possibly an entirely new terminal building, said airport CEO Darryl Wightman.

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