Anyone travelling to or from jfk, New-ark, or LaGuardia, the New York area's three main airports, is probably used to long delays and frequent cancellations. These airports carry 109m passengers and 2.7m tons of cargo annually, and are disproportionately responsible for jamming up America's airways. A congressional committee estimated that flight delays cost America over $40 billion last year. Almost a third of all flights were delayed or cancelled, and three-quarters of these delays originated in the New York area.rnWeather is certainly part of the problem, but having too many aeroplanes in too little sky is the main reason for the congestion. Despite recently adding more caps on the number of flights landing or departing per hour, the Federal Aviation Administration (faa) says the caps are not helping enough. So it has proposed a number of new ideas.
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