{"id":7167877,"date":"2010-11-05T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/federal-caps-not-reducing-new-york-airport-delays\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T20:30:15","slug":"federal-caps-not-reducing-new-york-airport-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/federal-caps-not-reducing-new-york-airport-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Caps Not Reducing New York Airport Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Federal caps not reducing airport delays<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>Federal caps on the number of flights at the city\u2019s airports are not decreasing delays, a recent report from the United States Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General finds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report claims that limits on flights at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports are too generous and since they\u2019re based on good weather conditions, overcrowding becomes intolerable when the weather isn\u2019t favorable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic controllers have must hold flights or add time between planes when weather is bad. That cuts between 10 and 20 flights an hour, with the trickle-down effect slowing air travel across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report suggests more flexible schedule limits and for the Federal Aviation Administration to reevaluate rules on scheduling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> NY 1 <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Federal caps not reducing airport delays Federal caps on the number of flights at the city\u2019s airports are not decreasing delays, a recent report from the United States Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General finds. &nbsp; &nbsp; The report claims that limits on flights at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports are too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7167877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97183428,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167877\/revisions\/97183428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}