major airports with substandard, short runways

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"USS John Wayne" - i.e. John Wayne/Orange County Airport in Santa Ana, CA comes to mind.

It's nicknamed "USS John Wayne" because of the shape of the airport's property, that loosely resembles the deck of an aircraft carrier, and its short (around 5,500' iirc) runway.  http://goo.gl/maps/gW5cc

To think they used to fly 757s out of there...don't know if they still do.  Then again, the 757, -200 variants at least, are decently overpowered.  Don't know about the -300 variants.  Likely not as much so.

FedEx still flies A300Fs into SNA on a regular basis. Also, many moons ago, I believe some airline (either DL or AA) operated 767-200s into SNA for a short time as well.