Groups oppose proposed flight cuts at JFK airport
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An International Herald Tribune report said the U.S. Department of Transportation thinks the airport could reliably handle a maximum of 80 or 81 flights per hour - much lesser than the 100 or more now flying during peak travel periods.
Last week, they federal authorities asked the airlines to voluntarily cut back by next summer, or face mandatory curbs, the report said.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said the caps mean JFK would handle 10,000 fewer passengers per day.
“It’s actually no solution at all,” the Authority’s executive director, Anthony Shorris, was quoted saying.
He and others suggested that they would rather see capacity boosted, through better airspace redesign as well as navigation and air traffic control systems.
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