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COMMENTS: Region to Region
Turning from highways to airways, NBC had Tom Costello look In Depth at the causes of the record level of airline flight delays that were announced last week (text link). Costello fingered a pair of culprits. First, domestic airlines have changed the composition of their fleets over the past six years--eliminating almost 400 large jetliners, adding more than 1,000 small regional jets. The benefit of frequent shorthaul service comes at the price of a congested schedule of daily takeoffs and landings, and consequent delays, at major airport hubs. Second, the FAA wants $20bn to upgrade it air traffic control to a satellite system, "but so far Congress has not acted."
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