"The New York City metropolitan-area airspace is
completely saturated and near gridlock... More than one-third of
all air traffic delays in the country on June 28 were in congested
New York airspace."
Source: James May, president of the Air
Transport Association, lobbying group for the nation's largest
airlines. On Monday the ATA requested the Federal Aviation
Administration create temporary additional airspace capacity over
the upcoming holiday period, by imposing ground delay programs at
Teterboro Airport and other nearby general aviation airports when
the agency imposes such programs at Newark Liberty International
Airport, LaGuardia International Airport and John F. Kennedy
International Airport.
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