Key to Eliminating U.S. Flight Delays? Redesign the Sky Over New York City

More than 2 million flights pass over the city every year, most traveling to and from the metropolitan area's three busiest airports: John F. Kennedy, Newark, and LaGuardia. And all that traffic squeezes through a network of aerial routes first laid out for the mail planes of the 1920s. Aircraft are tracked by antiquated, ground-based radar and guided by verbal instructions issued over simplex radios, technology that predates the pocket calculator. The ... Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Mar. 4, 2009

Fascinating stuff. Wired scrutinizes the inefficiency of flight patterns around New York City, the hub of the world's air traffic, and profiles the latest attempts to improve them. This is coupled with a concise background on how the nations airways have become so congested over time. The balance of perspectives makes for an interesting read: Rather than just discussing new solutions to the problem, Wired touches on how they've fared in real scenarios. Very readable and interesting.

I fly a lot, so this matters to me.

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