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...There are less degenerate ways to solve the problem of airplane noise, an annoyance rapidly evolving into a menace. But do not look to the FAA or the aviation industry to help. Quality of life is not their department. Not for people in the air, and certainly not for those on the ground...
...complain about noise are out of their minds. Let's just say it's a sociological problem." As more and more people are driven out of their minds by noise, Johnson will find that it has become a political problem as well, and therefore an industry problem. Eventually, the FAA will be forced to abandon its disgracefully intimate collusion with the aviation industry...
...clear even before the FAA study that the air transport system lives every day on the edge of chaotic delays. It's economics 101: Supply cannot meet demand. And common sense 202: Why should everyone have a constitutional right to fly into LaGuardia...
...FAA pointed out how bad things get in terms of airline overscheduling. For example, at Chicago's O'Hare Airport there are typically more airline operations scheduled than the airport can handle. It's worth it to the airlines - since current rates for using the air traffic system and the airport facilities are so low that airlines send in squadrons of smaller planes to spread choice for the consumer throughout the day. Last year, before managers at San Francisco International Airport threatened penalties, one carrier was offering 30 nonstop flights to Los Angeles over a 17-hour period...
...larger aircraft that take up proportionately less space and time in crowded airports; encouraging, or forcing, use of secondary airports; gagging members of Congress who insist on nonstop, cheap flights from Podunk to Major Metropolis; and even (anti-government types should skip this part) reinstitution by the FAA of slots (that is, landing and takeoff rights) at the most delayed airports...