The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) announced at its
Annual Spring Awards Luncheon last week the Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) Team of public and private sector
groups has been selected as the recipient of the 2007 Robert J.
Collier Trophy.
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"We have an obligation to travelers to do everything in
our power to prevent a repeat of the horrors they experienced last
summer. Delays in New York are a regional problem, not just a
single-airport problem."
Source: US Transportation Secretary Mary E.
Peters, speaking Monday at the 33rd Annual FAA Forecast Conference.
Airlines serving Newark Liberty Airport have agreed to temporarily
cap and spread flights for two years at a level that will allow 30
more flights per day than last summer. The move follows similar
action announced last year for New York's JFK International, where
hourly caps not to exceed 83 operations per hour are due to be
implemented March 15, 2008.
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