Capital expenditure would rise if the airstrip had to meet certain standards on runways, such as length, width and requirements on runway end safety areas.
Plastic matting is to be installed over the grass surface of the Land's End runway to allow flights to resume between the Isles of Scilly.
The pilots, flying from Prague to Stansted with 149 passengers, only realised their mistake when their plane neared the runway's end, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said.
Managers said the move to Newquay would allow time for the Lands End grass runway to dry out.
Making any more big deals as unlikely as an end to runway delays.
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During the closure a 20m (66ft) strip of runway was laid to connect to a new 120m (394ft) section built at the western end of the current runway.
The Ariana flight was parked at the end of a runway and immediately surrounded by security forces, including SAS commandos.
Southwest Airlines spokesperson Linda Rutherford said an earthen dam at the end of the runway was interfering with the signal being sent to inbound flights.
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Larger planes need to touchdown as close as possible to the end of the runway because they need as much runway as they can get.
"There was no indication of any problems on landing, but as the plane reached the end of the runway two of its tyres burst, " the spokesman said.
Last week the company said it was looking at the possibility of giving the grass runway at Land's End airport a hard covering, and that a decision would be made "soon".
There are about a dozen cargo and passenger planes at what workers call the "graveyard", an overgrown field at the far north end of the runway at the airport, which is a major transport hub for West Africa, AP reports.
The beach sits at one end of a short runway at Princess Juliana International Airport.
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Land's End Airport is closed until Thursday because of a waterlogged grass runway, preventing Skybus flights.
The Davies commission will publish an interim report by the end of 2013, with ideas on how to improve the use of existing runway capacity over the next five years and an assessment of what is needed to maintain the UK's global hub status.
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