[PieterCasparzen]

They’ve undoubtedly switched to landing all traffic to the West on the crosswind runway at Newark.

Makes me smirk thinking about that. I've been on normal-sized commercial jets that landed on that runway a couple times.

For some of the larger planes, that is one short runway.

And man do they hit the breaks if they touched down a little long. A lot of passengers get a little disconcerted with that hard breaking. IMHO, landing long is not "by the book", and if a pilot is lazy about that, then has to land on a short runway some day, they're setting themselves up for problems.

[BatGuano]

Re: “not landing by the book”. Add to that a slight tailwind with snow on the runway and you have an excursion onto city streets as Southwest did at Midway a few years ago. Good habits are essential to being a successful pilot.

Bat