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...people thought the Federal Aviation Administration could, as it promised, solve the delay problem at New York's LaGuardia Airport in six months...
...this week is a stunning, even brave, departure from the incremental approach that has dominated the agency for too long. They have - shockingly - given notice to all the players in the aviation game that it is time to pay up for the scarcest of resources: Tarmac space at LaGuardia...
...keep the ball rolling at the other top ten delay-plagued airports in the country. Then, perhaps, passengers won't have to suffer through another year like the last one, during which one out of every four flights was delayed. "The debates about how to fix the problems at LaGuardia are a microcosm of what's going on around the country," explains Plavin. "If the FAA gets LaGuardia right, there is no reason that parts of what works at LaGuardia can't be applied to other airports...
...just what has the FAA proposed to make LaGuardia livable again? Its first suggestion is a classic old-style agency tactic: Kick the final decision down the field by extending the current 'lottery' system of flights. The lottery was imposed last winter after Congress foolishly opened the floodgates by changing legislation to allow pretty much anyone to fly into the most congested airspace in the world. "We told members of Congress that the airlines would throw every airplane they had at LaGuardia and the flying world would come to a stop if they passed that bill. But they...
...resulting pandemonium set in last fall, after 300 new flights a day were added (but before an additional 300 were up and running). Delays tripled at LaGuardia, affecting more than a quarter of all flights. Air carriers were sending squadrons of smaller (under 100 seats) and typically slower planes into the airport, holding back operations at a facility that demands movements in much less than a New York minute...