The fares travelers pay typically have little relation to how far you fly, even though airline costs are largely dependent on the length of a flight.

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He found Hercus in support and the fly-half looped out a sumptuous pass to right winger Ngwenya, who had half the length of the pitch to go and Habana to beat.

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The two-new-runway option would see a new northern full-length runway 2, 900 metres from the existing one, on which planes would fly only to and from the west to avoid overflying the town of Horley.

BBC: Gatwick campaigners' dismay

Although current aircraft can fly as far as Finland and the Baltic to Italy and the Mediterranean, an increase in runway length will allow flights to arrive from further afield.

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