The FAA Knew All Along...

FAA Follies proves the airlines knew about the delay problem and could have solved it a long time ago.

"The 12 members of the FAA’s Capacity Modeling and Analysis Group saw it coming. The team, based at the William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J., has studied every large and medium-sized airport in the United States, using numerical models that simulate the movement of aircraft from the air onto taxiways and runways. Their job is to provide the information necessary to recognize what procedures and characteristics (e.g. gates) cause congestion and delays in the nation’s airspace and airports. Just what to do with that information is up to the airports.

"Years ago, the Analysis Group foresaw the record delays that would occur in summer 2007"