Ostend airport runway renewed, airport closed for two months

Ostend-Bruges Airport has one paved runway, three aircraft parking lots and several taxiways. After the renovation of the largest aircraft parking lot in 2022, the runway will be renovated early next year. It is 3.2 kilometers long and 45 meters wide.

Less noise

In addition, they will also renovate the sewerage and drainage, sustainable LED lighting will be installed and they will also widen the taxi roads. After that, aircraft taxiing could turn counterclockwise in a larger circle. This should lead to less engine power and therefore less emissions and noise, it sounds.

The last repaving of the runway was in the mid-1990s.