Airport Check-in

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2007 | by Roger Yu

Correction ran 3/7/2007: An Airport Check-in item Monday should have said the Airbus A380 test flight scheduled to land March 19 at Los Angeles International Airport will carry only a group of technicians.

DETROIT

Runway to be closed for renovation

Detroit Metro is closing one of its six runways in May for a $50 million renovation. The runway mostly handles arrivals.

Until it reopens in November, travelers may face short delays since the airport plans to use only four of the five open runways to compensate for the closure. The fifth runway intersects the runway to be closed, effectively shortening it while the work continues.

Only smaller regional jets, which need less runway to land and take off, will use that during the...