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...sort of knew this, deep down, but Thursday the FAA announced that 2000 had indeed been the worst year for flight delays since the Wright Brothers had trouble at Kitty Hawk. A record 450,289 flights were delayed last year - 20 percent more than in 1999 - and the beleaguered agency is actually calling it an act of nature...
...Almost 69 percent of the delays (309,482) were due to bad weather, especially thunderstorms in spring, summer and fall, the FAA said. Volume, the second-leading cause, accounted for 14 percent (63,048 delays), a 42.3 percent increase over the previous year. And New York's LaGuardia Airport, which loosened restrictions on the number of flights during the last four months of the year, was the nation's least punctual airport, with 18,026 volume delays, or 28.6 percent of the national total...
...press a button in your car and link up to a satellite-based guidance system, but you can't do that in a $100 million aircraft. The FAA has scores of time-saving proposals, such as data-link communications and airspace redesign, but it is slogging through the years-long approval process. Congress has for the first time provided significant money, and FAA Administrator Jane Garvey has lighted a fire under the agency, but technological improvements should come much faster. The airline industry isn't breathing down the FAA's neck to get global-positioning systems installed, in part because...
ABOLISH THE FAA...
There. We said it. Once the throwaway line of antigovernment fanatics, this proposal isn't so far out anymore. Repeated budget overruns and bureaucratic bungling--the FAA is spending $5 million to rebuild the tower at Miami airport because controllers couldn't see the runways clearly--has led to cries that the FAA must...