ACI World Issues Guidance on Reducing Runway Overrun Consequences
ACI World issued guidance urging airport leadership to ensure every runway end has appropriate protection, understand residual risk and follow through on improvement decisions. Runway excursions remain one of ICAO's global high-risk occurrence categories. The guidance covers runway end safety areas (RESA) and engineered materials arresting systems (EMAS), stressing that compliance is only a starting point and that airports must assess hazards beyond the protected area and consider arresting systems where space is constrained.
Impact and considerations
The guidance provides a framework for airport safety management and investment decisions covering runway-end protection, residual-risk assessment and arresting-system selection, with direct relevance for airport operators and aviation safety managers.
Key points
- ACI World issued guidance urging airport leadership to ensure every runway end has appropriate protection.
- Runway excursions remain one of ICAO's global high-risk occurrence categories.
- A runway end safety area (RESA) provides additional space beyond the runway strip to reduce the consequences of an overrun or undershoot.
- Compliance is only a starting point; airports must also assess hazards beyond the protected area, such as terrain, roads, water and buildings.
- An engineered materials arresting system (EMAS) absorbs energy to decelerate an aircraft and suits constrained runway ends.
- Airports should assess risk through their safety management system, with runway safety teams providing operational input.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- Airports Council International World
- Other sources
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- First source publication
- 11 Sept 2026, 02:39
- Page published
- 12 Sept 2026, 00:12
- Last updated
- 11 Sept 2026, 02:39
- Original links
- ACI World RSS：Reducing the consequences of runway overruns (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 11 Sept 2026, 02:39