Word: laguardia
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Where were you tripwrecked during last year's Summer of Hell? Were you hopelessly delayed at Atlanta's Hartsfield, left to rot at LaGuardia, out of options at O'Hare? Labor troubles, airline overscheduling, bad weather and technological lags all combined to make last year the most congested in the history of aviation. And there is no sign that the upcoming vacation season will be any more comfortable...
...badly enough, pay for it. In congressional testimony last fall, John Carr, head of the air-traffic controllers' union, pointed out that at Dallas-Fort Worth airport, where the departure rate is 11 aircraft in a five-minute period, airlines were scheduling 16 takeoffs at the very same time. LaGuardia Airport in New York City has become Exhibit A of airline excess. Although the facility can accommodate 75 flights an hour, at times there are more than 100 planes scheduled. Since airlines evidently cannot restrain themselves from overscheduling, demand could be rationed by the size of the fee that...
...topper: flying from J.F.K., which most New Yorkers avoid like a contagion ward because it's farther from Manhattan than LaGuardia Airport and often clogged with international flights. Yet J.F.K. has become jetBlue's trump card. The airport is congested only about five hours a day, and the rest of the time--when jetBlue operates most of its flights--traffic is relatively light...
...last night, the Federal Aviation Administration listed no delays on flights from Logan to Atlanta. But students traveling to places like Chicago's O'Hare Airport and New York's LaGuardia Airport were experiencing delays, in some cases upwards of 5 hours...
...angles and cheap leather never looked this good. I borrow a cell phone and call my mom. We were both expecting me to be safely lodged in Wigglesworth Hall at this time. She nearly drops a pot of boiling water when I tell her that I'm still at LaGuardia...