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...functioning at 96% of capacity and has no room to expand because suburbs surround it. Yet air traffic is still growing. For the first seven months of this year, the airport logged 106,458 hours of delays, compared with 67,590 at the second busiest U.S. airport, Atlanta's Hartsfield International. About 75% of O'Hare's delays are attributed to the city's blustery weather. Two new buildings may alleviate some of the congestion. The futuristic United Airlines terminal, opened in 1987, handles 90,000 people a day. A new international terminal and a people-mover system are scheduled...
...compared with the first quarter of last year. Says Nozomu Kaneda, of Kingston, N.Y., an IBM technician who flies often: "Delays occur so frequently that I feel lucky whenever one lasts less than an hour." A Government study of service by Eastern and Delta at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport showed that many of their regularly scheduled flights were delayed at least 70% of the time; a few had 100% records of lateness...
...summer flight schedules at sorely congested airports serving five major cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, Dallas and Atlanta. At Newark airport, for example, the airlines moved 13 of the 57 scheduled arrivals and departures out of the hectic 6 p.m.-to-7 p.m. time slot. Atlanta's notoriously busy Hartsfield Airport will benefit from a total of 203 schedule changes...
...taken in "gate holds" on the ground; planes are not allowed to leave until they have a chance to land promptly at their next stop. This prudent procedure caused more than 70,000 holiday travelers around the nation to be delayed last week when fog closed Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport, a major airline hub. While the air-flow controls may annoy passengers eager to get going on their trips, pilots and controllers prefer it to in-air stacking because it leaves fewer airborne planes to worry about...
...ease congestion, the Federal Aviation Administration last month prodded 100 airlines into an unprecedented agreement to spread out 1,300 rush-hour flights at the six most crowded U.S. airports. These are Chicago-O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartsfield, Denver's Stapleton and the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark. The pact will not take effect until Nov. 1, but it has already come under heavy fire. Critics both in and out of the airline industry charge that the accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse...