This is incorrect, while most runways are aligned with the magnetic heading, that changes when you have a field with multiple parallel runways. Atlanta Hartsfield comes to mind first, with its five parallels in the East-West directions, 8L/26R, 8R/26L, 9L/27R, 9R/27L, 10/28. One would naively expect these to be not parallel by just reading the name, while in fact they are all in line.
This is incorrect, while most runways are aligned with the magnetic heading, that changes when you have a field with multiple parallel runways. Atlanta Hartsfield comes to mind first, with its five parallels in the East-West directions, 8L/26R, 8R/26L, 9L/27R, 9R/27L, 10/28. One would naively expect these to be not parallel by just reading the name, while in fact they are all in line.