One of your points states that a plane can only "take off and land from a runway"... so if you don't have a runway built, you can't go anywhere.

I get the pain of what you're saying, I'm dealing with this now on one of my maps but I think people need to rely less on using a radar which reveals so ...

Using a windows PC, with Windows 10. Never had any issues in a long time, opened up the game and just started getting this error:

I've added the log file that the error message suggest I upload to the forums.

0.020 2017-08-23 00:43:54; Factorio 0.15.33 (build 30852, win64, steam)
0.020 Operating ...