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Internet Travel Monitor - Events & Legislation
September 5, 2007
Redesigned Airspace May Reduce Jams
NEW YORK, NY – New York airspace, the most congested in the U.S., will be redesigned to reduce airline delays 20 percent by 2011, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
New procedures and routes will make air travel more efficient in five states, Nancy Kalinowski, an FAA director, said Wednesday. She said the changes will aid travelers at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., and New York's LaGuardia and Kennedy, the nation's three most congested airports. Newark is a hub for Houston-based Continental Airlines.
"This design will benefit the flying public by cutting down on delays," Kalinowski said during a conference call in Washington.
Wednesday's announcement caps a decade of FAA research aimed at increasing on-time arrivals and minimizing noise. The airspace includes Delaware and Connecticut, as well as eastern Pennsylvania.
The three New York-area airports lead the nation in late-arriving airline flights through the first seven months of the year, according to Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The plan will shave a combined 12 million minutes of delay per year from those three airports and Philadelphia's, Kalinowski said.
The airspace redesign, to be completed in 2011, is also expected to cut carrier fuel and other operating costs.
Parts of the plan will be implemented in coming months, said Steve Kelley, the FAA's manager for airspace redesign.
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Publishing Company. All rights
reserved. From http://www.chron.com. By John Hughes.
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