In case you hadn’t heard: Airline delays bad, getting worse. “FAA Blames Poor Weather, Traffic Congestion; Little Improvement Likely” [Washington Post] (Thanks, Ian!)
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I’m highly amused that Ric Romero’s reputation has traveled beyond FARK.
Problem – Too few runways for increasing traffic.
Airline solution – Let us fly closer together (though we still have to
wait in line, and still can’t fly in t-storms) and stop taxing us
because we need another break (the bailout wasn’t enough)
Real solution – de-emphasize the hub and spoke system and continue to build more runways faster.
Man if I had only known that I can make money in journalism by printing the obvious I would have never spent all the money to get a degree in IT.
Bankrupt airlines operating at full capacity = delays with fabricated excuses.