Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. And New York's LaGuardia Airport, which loosened restrictions on the number of flights during the last four months of the year, was the nation's least punctual airport, with 18,026 volume delays, or 28.6 percent of the national total. TIME's Sally B. Donnelly offers five ways to make the skies friendlier. That is where the vast majority of delays occur.
Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard.
Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn't broken ground. And when it does, the new strip will take four years to complete. Memphis international airport needed 10 years to get its new runway approved and an additional six to actually finish it. Hub airports should get emergency treatment. Congress needs to streamline the federal approval process, take some authority out of the hands of local and state politicians, and get a major new runway built at every large airport that can physically accommodate it.