Word: laguardia
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...little bit different. Where I come from, an usher is the 80-year-old man named Ernie at the movie theater who takes my ticket and reminds me to donate spare change to cystic fibrosis research. At Shea Stadium, where the Mets have languished under the roar of LaGuardia air traffic since the 1960s, all the ushers are brittle octogenarians dressed up in cute age-appropriate Mets gear—orange bow ties and suspenders. But at Fenway, the ushers double as beefy security guards, always ready to hustle up the bleacher stairs to escort belligerent fans (or vomiting graduates...
...Then came the voice of reason: LaGuardia's managers - the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - cried uncle. The FAA imposed a lottery that helped ease traffic and rendered the airport's delays more reasonable. (Reasonable, that is, if you call a one in ten chance of being delayed for an average of 40.51 minutes reasonable...
...second proposal is to run off these pesky little aircraft and establish a minimum aircraft size for planes who want to come into LaGuardia. Aviation economists routinely point out that while the number of flights has jumped by double-digit percentages in major U.S. markets over the past decade or so, the increase has come with the advent of smaller planes. The number of actual seats, in other words, has pretty much stayed the same...
...Port Authority, which worked closely with the FAA in developing possible options, seems primed to make whatever changes are necessary to bring LaGuardia back to something resembling normalcy. "We have proposed both market solutions and administrative tools to get the carrier to use LaGuardia more efficiently," says Neil Levin, the recently installed head of the Port Authority, who brings a businessman's impatience to the sluggish world of aviation policy. Levin seems to be itching to do something soon, and is not opposed to using strongarm tactics to accomplish his goal. One page of options from Levin's office boldly...
...There's nothing usual about the air traffic crisis at LaGuardia, though, and the airlines know the FAA and the Port Authority are serious about finding a solution. "No one disputes there is a problem at LaGuardia," says Levin. "One way or another, somebody...