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...clear even before the FAA study that the air transport system lives every day on the edge of chaotic delays. It's economics 101: Supply cannot meet demand. And common sense 202: Why should everyone have a constitutional right to fly into LaGuardia...
...have made their way into the airlines' realm as well: Mineta is also said to be considering bonuses for airlines that use runways and gates at less busy times, and likewise penalizing those that insist on landing, on, say, Friday at 6 p.m at New York's LaGuardia Airport...
Summers laughed off the question, quoting Fiorello LaGuardia, a former New York mayor, saying, "When I screw up, it's a whopper," adding that he meant to visit Boston as well...
...Almost 69 percent of the delays (309,482) were due to bad weather, especially thunderstorms in spring, summer and fall, the FAA said. Volume, the second-leading cause, accounted for 14 percent (63,048 delays), a 42.3 percent increase over the previous year. And New York's LaGuardia Airport, which loosened restrictions on the number of flights during the last four months of the year, was the nation's least punctual airport, with 18,026 volume delays, or 28.6 percent of the national total...
...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...