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...flight plan: "Two to get there and one to circle." American Airlines reported that the previous week's average 88-min. delay at Kennedy rose last week to one day's average of 3 hr. 14 min. on the Chicago-to-New York run. Before the crisis, rush-hour delays at Kennedy averaged...
Charles C. Tillinghast, president of Trans World Airlines, last week called for industry-wide sessions on the crisis. He suggested shifting rush-hour flights to outlying terminals. More drastic was his proposal to end rush hour itself by changing schedules. By week's end the Civil Aeronautics Board authorized the talks. Airliners soon may be diverted at peak hours from congested airports, and passengers on peak-hour flights may have to pay premium rates. The industry blames the glut partly on private planes, but barring them from major airports would hardly dent the crush. At Kennedy, they make...
Among unique features of the building, designed by Harry Weese & Associates, will be double-decked elevators, designed to end rush-hour jams. Coming to work, staff members will be able to enter the lower or upper section of the cars from different lobby levels, depending on whether they work on odd-or even-numbered floors. Once at work, they will be protected from extreme fluctuations of exterior light or heat by deep gold glass mirrored to keep out most solar rays. This will also create a one-way view out during the day, while at night, bright interior illumination will...
...Government but make their own time schedules. The 2,379 commercial planes spent 6,000,000 hours aloft last year and 150,000 hours waiting to take off or land, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which figures that U.S. passengers wasted 10 million man-hours just waiting (see box). Some of this congestion was caused by the 32,-310 military aircraft and some by the airliners themselves, but most of it by the 104,706 light planes stacked up in rush-hour traffic. The FAA estimates that at the nation's 9,950 airports only...
Across the U.S., the airport rush hour is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Here-as compiled from figures supplied by the FAA, the airlines and air-traffic controllers-are the average number of daily takeoffs and landings at the 20 busiest U.S. commercial airports, and the average rush-hour time a plane wastes circling the field or waiting to take...