So are jets and whatever not going to have runways again?

I'd be okay with it if the runways were way back in secure areas but then you're potentially wasting a lot of map space. While not as dramatic, spawning mid air was both better for balance and looked less silly then having two runways a few hundred meters apart. And before someone pulls a muscle frantically grabbing their anti realism card I am fully aware that BF is not a sim but even so there are still practical limits and having runways that close to one another was bridge too far.