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The U.S. Department of Transportation limiting flights at LaGuardia Airport to 71 per hour, down from 75 per hour, would help ease plane delays. (FYI, the Wall Street Journal notes, "The number of hourly flights at the New York area's Kennedy and Newark airports is also capped, but at higher levels.") DOT Secretary Mary Peters said LGA is the "worst of the worst" airports since it's dead-last in rankings of large U.S. airports' on-time arrivals, with only 61% of flights arriving on-time. Recently, the U.S. DOT's effort to auction flight slots at LGA, Kennedy and Newark was blocked by federal court; DOT counsel D.J. Gribbin, who noted one carrier at LGA was interested in limiting flights (the airport's four carriers must all agree), said, "Gridlock in D.C. should not result in gridlock over the skies of New York. We can still take the first step toward restoring reliable air service to LaGuardia."
Feds Want to Cut Flights at LaGuardia
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Doubt it will help, but I guess it's worth a try.
It might help, but they need to cut further. LGA is notorious for overbooking the runways. As I have said before, this is possible the worst designed airport in the country and it is not only a pull on the on time statistics of the country but also it's an unsafe design when pushed to capacity limits.
They make this sound so cut and dry. If Gothamist actually checked ALL facts instead of reporting only a one sided version of this story, unlike the news, you would also be informed that this is only a proposal ALL the major carriers would need to voluntarily agree to cancel one of their own daily flights or more since they are purposing that by cutting 4 flights from 75 to 71, will stop all congestion, Ok, so lets see which airlines voluntarily forfeit their profits. Nice concept though.
Thanks, Nyctini11 for pointing that out. I've revised the post to reflect that the carriers must voluntarily agree to the cuts (but one article made it sounds like the fed DOT was lowering the flight cap no matter what). Re: cutting their flights, you never know—given the troubles in the airline industry, it might give them reason to cut flights and try make sure others are filled to capacity.
My first comment wasn't posted, so I'm going to do it again.
I don't think this will make much difference, if any. LGA traffic is down 10% this year anyways (and most likely averaging less than 71 flights an hour). So, even though LGA traffic is down, delays are actually worse this year compared to last.
The airline the DOT lawyer mentioned is very interested is American Airlines. They've already cut flights at LGA by 20% this year and cut a lot of destinations. Their cuts equate to a reduction of five operations an hour. Since they've made their cuts, they've been begging the FAA to retire these slots so their competitors can't get them.
I've never been delayed for anything other than weather-related incidents at LGA. Actually, I avoid JFK as much as possible because you can always guarantee an extra hour of taxiing and waiting on line for a clear runway.
I'm just surprised to hear that there's this many delays at LGA. Maybe it's because I usually only fly in the morning. Not as crowded yet? Who's ready for an airspace redesign?
The entire country is ready for an airspace/ATC redesign.
LGA is okay in the morning...it's the afternoon and evening where it reliably becomes a clusterfuck.
Thanks JenC for clarifying things, i just hate, especially now a days when people aren't given all the facts and form opinions based on incomplete facts, i hope i didn't offend you in original post. Happy holidays everyone!