Word: faa
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...what the FAA did do this week is a stunning, even brave, departure from the incremental approach that has dominated the agency for too long. They have - shockingly - given notice to all the players in the aviation game that it is time to pay up for the scarcest of resources: Tarmac space at LaGuardia...
...Starting at 7 a.m., and at least every two hours after that, the FAA's air traffic managers, the airlines, and - starting next month - the business jet crowd, get on a conference call to talk about the weather. These conversations aren't the ones you have at the bus stop: these are short, intense and often heated discussions about who has to pay when Mother Nature starts throwing her weight around with storms that can bobble...
...only took the industry about half a century to come up with the idea. Before last summer, the FAA largely called the shots and the airlines were left to delay flights and grumble about incompetent government bureaucrats. Now they're all in it together. And the system of the FAA and the airlines sharing information and analysis, which was created and installed for the first time only last summer, actually works very well...
...example, one big achievement is instead of using competing and contradictory information, now the airlines and the FAA use the exact same weather predication map. Another: there is a "National Playbook," which, much like a NFL version, sketches out in precise detail how players will react to certain situations - only the participants are airplanes, and they maneuver around thunderstorms, not 350-lb. defensive linemen...
...your holiday shaping up this summer? It's actually looking pretty good. At a conference this week in Washington, representatives from the FAA, airlines and the air traffic controllers were almost looking forward to this summer. The FAA is confident it has worked out the kinks, the controllers are getting more timely information about changes affecting them, and the airlines that didn't get on board last year realize that if they don't play, they don't have a say. So they're getting on board - some airlines, such as Northwest and Continental, are getting so cozy with...