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...most maddening side effect of deregulation has probably been the lengthy delays that cropped up this summer at major U.S. airports. With carriers bunching their flights during the most attractive hours, an airport like Chicago-O'Hare found itself facing 42 departures between 7 a.m. and 7:15 a.m., but with a capability to handle only 23. Jetliners had to wait and wait before taking off, forcing many passengers to miss connections and appointments. Andrew Edson, a Manhattan public relations consultant, recently spent two hours on the ground in an Atlanta-bound jet at New York...
Four men and four women will be elected Marshals by their classmates in a two-week voting process that, for the first time, will coincide with elections for the Undergraduate Council. Like the Council elections, the Marshal ballotting will use the Hare Proportional Representation system, in which voters rank candidates in order of preference...
Koivemaki lauded the Hare process, which is also used by the Cambridge City Council, saying, "the beauty of the system is that when the ballots are counted, they tend to reflect minority and majority positions to the extent which they are represented in the electorate at large...
...delays stacked up last month, the FAA issued a stern warning to the airlines: either voluntarily reschedule flights at the six most congested airports (Atlanta's Hartsfield, the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark, Chicago-O'Hare and Denver's Stapleton) or the FAA would do it for them. A special immunity from antitrust prosecution was granted so that the air carriers could meet. Representatives from about 50 domestic and 15 international carriers last week began a six-day session in Crystal City, Va., outside Washington, to work out new flight schedules...
...offered to move its arrivals up, to between 7:30 and 8:15, while Eastern said it would shift its back, to between 8:25 and 8:55. As the meetings proceeded through the weekend, airline officials went on to discuss congestion at Stapleton Airport and Chicago-O'Hare...