Shorten Taxi Time

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Seems to me that an airport with a circular runway could shorten taxi time in getting aircraft more quickly to a central terminal. But in bringing approaching aircraft into position to use the circular runway or for departures I would imagine that the workload for ATC would increase quite a bit. 
Also with the larger sized and increased weight of today's larger aircraft the side-loads on high speed circular travel, both on takeoffs and landings, would cause stress problems with the landing gear.

Source: Professional Pilot Magazine

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