taxiway

IPA: tˈæksiweɪ

(aviation) A road or path within an airport designated for the taxiing of aircraft connecting the runways with ramps, hangars, terminals and other facilities.

Examples of "taxiway" in Sentences

The taxiway are the blue lights to the right of it.
The taxiway is very wide and long, better than the rough runways at that airport.
Getting the runway rebuilt will improve the surface for fliers, but the taxiway is a major safety improvement.
So the question is, how could the pilots have confused the taxiway, which is what they landed on, for the runway.
Instead of landing on the runway, it landed on the taxiway, which is usually used by planes that just landed or are getting ready to takeoff, of course.
The cost estimate for the larger project, including the ramp expansion and taxiway, which is to run parallel to the runway and be 5,000 feet long by 35 feet wide, remains $6 million.
$556,797 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration that would be used to reconstruct a portion of the airport's "Alpha" taxiway, which is the primary taxiway for the facility's main runway.