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...Then came the voice of reason: LaGuardia's managers - the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - cried uncle. The FAA imposed a lottery that helped ease traffic and rendered the airport's delays more reasonable. (Reasonable, that is, if you call a one in ten chance of being delayed for an average of 40.51 minutes reasonable...
...FAA's proposals are a great first step in hammering out what virtually every other industry in America has learned: How to use the marketplace to allocate a scarce resource," says David Plavin, head of the Airports Council International-North America, a Washington group that represents airport managers and operators around...
...Plavin, and others, hope the FAA will keep the ball rolling at the other top ten delay-plagued airports in the country. Then, perhaps, passengers won't have to suffer through another year like the last one, during which one out of every four flights was delayed. "The debates about how to fix the problems at LaGuardia are a microcosm of what's going on around the country," explains Plavin. "If the FAA gets LaGuardia right, there is no reason that parts of what works at LaGuardia can't be applied to other airports...
...just what has the FAA proposed to make LaGuardia livable again? Its first suggestion is a classic old-style agency tactic: Kick the final decision down the field by extending the current 'lottery' system of flights. The lottery was imposed last winter after Congress foolishly opened the floodgates by changing legislation to allow pretty much anyone to fly into the most congested airspace in the world. "We told members of Congress that the airlines would throw every airplane they had at LaGuardia and the flying world would come to a stop if they passed that bill. But they...
...lottery only made the problem manageable. It's the second half of the FAA's strategy that's revolutionary and has airline managers quaking. It's called 'demand management.' For English speakers, this means finding ways to strongly encourage airlines not to make so many flights out of a particular airport. To accomplish this, the FAA is floating two controversial proposals: One, making airlines pay more, or two, literally forcing them to put the interests of the airport and the air traffic system first...