The FAA is finding new tricks to cut delays
As the skies get more crowded, the FAA is making changes to air-traffic control in hopes of avoiding the kind of widespread delays that travellers experienced routinely 20 years ago. The total number of minutes that flights were delayed by air-traffic control slowdowns—most of it attributable to weather—soared 69% to 21.7m in 2017 from 12.8m in 2012. 2017 was a particularly bad year for ATC delays because of storm-related slowdowns, triggering the efforts to find new ways to minimise weather impact. It started working in 2018. Delay minutes actually dropped 4% compared with 2017 because of a new effort to speed flights out of New York airports. April 1, the FAA will change how it handles flights into and out of Chicago and Denver, replicating the changes in New York airspace that reduced delays even as traffic increased. <br/>
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The FAA is finding new tricks to cut delays
As the skies get more crowded, the FAA is making changes to air-traffic control in hopes of avoiding the kind of widespread delays that travellers experienced routinely 20 years ago. The total number of minutes that flights were delayed by air-traffic control slowdowns—most of it attributable to weather—soared 69% to 21.7m in 2017 from 12.8m in 2012. 2017 was a particularly bad year for ATC delays because of storm-related slowdowns, triggering the efforts to find new ways to minimise weather impact. It started working in 2018. Delay minutes actually dropped 4% compared with 2017 because of a new effort to speed flights out of New York airports. April 1, the FAA will change how it handles flights into and out of Chicago and Denver, replicating the changes in New York airspace that reduced delays even as traffic increased. <br/>
