Thu, Apr 07, 2005
Objective: Reduce Delays
The FAA has limited the
number of flight operations at Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport and may expand the use of two lesser-traveled
runways in hopes of reducing delays.
But airport neighbors most affected by noise from traffic using
those two runways are hopping mad -- saying the government has
failed to take them into account.
"It's absolutely unfathomable that they would do this because it
takes noise impacts out into neighborhoods in an unprecedented way
and would destroy the quality of life in large parts of the
community," Broward County Mayor Kristin Jacobs told the South
Florida Sun-Sentinel.
But the FAA says there are few alternatives to deal with an
increasingly congested airport where delays are becoming more the
rule than the exception. Almost one-third of the 12,000 commercial
flight operations staged at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood in the first
two months of this year were late arriving or departing, according
to the FAA.
Traffic problems have plagued South Florida for more than two
years. ANN reported in December, 2003, on flight delays
at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport. That led the FAA to start
limiting the number of non-commercial flights into and out of the
airport.
The FAA is now limiting
the number of arrivals into Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood to 28 an
hour. Almost all of that traffic uses the main north runway. The
FAA's plan, now under consideration, would send most of the
unscheduled business and general flights to the airport's south
runway between 0800 and 2000 local. Over a six month trial period,
that traffic would also be funneled toward the crosswind
runway.
But air traffic is growing in volume by ten percent a year at
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood and many aviation types in South Florida
believe it's only a matter of time before the airport will have to
be expanded. Eventually, they say, the FAA will have to build more
runways or send some of that traffic to other airports.
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