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Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Summer Travel Delay Prevention
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Flight delays and cancellations hit all time highs at
major airports nationwide during the summer of 2007, when--
(A) 20 percent more passengers were affected by
flight delays than were affected during the previous
summer;
(B) nearly 621,000 flights were delayed, an
increase of 15 percent compared with approximately
539,000 delayed flights in the summer of 2006;
(C) such delays lasted an average of 60 minutes, a
7 percent increase from the average length of flight
delays in the previous summer;
(D) flight cancellations increased to 48,000, from
37,000 in the summer of 2006, affecting nearly
3,200,000 passengers; and
(E) on board tarmac delays lasting at least 1 hour
increased by 25 percent compared with the summer of
2006, affecting over 2,000,000 passengers.
(2) The Inspector General of the Department of
Transportation--
(A) identified the New York area as 1 of 3
saturation points across the country that impacted
delays nationwide;
(B) reported that the biggest airspace bottlenecks
during the summer of 2007 were at the 3 major New York
area airports and the surrounding airspace, accounting
for more than /3\ of the flight delays nationwide;
and
(C) after analyzing the likelihood of having more
or less delays at 5 of the busiest airports based on
current traffic and existing systems, determined that
the significant increase in the peak travel schedule at
LaGuardia Airport in the summer 2008 has the potential
to worsen delay conditions.
(3) The 3 airports in the New York area, Kennedy Airport
(JFK), LaGuardia Airport, and Newark Liberty Airport--
(A) are the 3 worst airports across the country in
terms of on-time arrivals, with only 59 percent of
flights arriving on time at JFK and LaGuardia;
(B) are anticipated to experience massive delays in
the summer of 2008; and
(C) have a ripple effect on the national airspace
system.
(4) Between October 2006 and July 2007 at JFK, average
daily operations increased by 23 percent and arrival delays of
more than 1 hour increased by 114 percent, to more than 2,300.
(5) The Federal Aviation Administration estimates that the
number of passengers on commercial aircraft will increase by 36
percent between 2007 and 2015, to a total of 1,000,000,000
passenger trips.
(6) Next generation air traffic control technology has the
ability to significantly improve congestion problems, but the
Federal Aviation Administration has repeatedly delayed its
implementation, currently estimated to take place in 2025, 11
years later than originally predicted.
(7) In addition to technology improvements, proven tools
are available to reduce airspace congestion and address the
massive delays.
(8) During the Thanksgiving holidays in 2007, military
airspace off the East Coast was opened for commercial use,
significantly reducing holiday delays and congestion by
creating an additional lane for traffic.
(9) Empowering a director to oversee and coordinate
operations in congested airspace has effectively reduced delays
in South Florida, where some air carriers improved arrival
performance by 44 percent and reduced delays lasting more than
90 minutes by 69 percent.

SEC. 3. PLAN FOR SHARING MILITARY AND SPECIAL USE AIRSPACE.

The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in
consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of
Defense, shall develop--
(1) a plan to open up special use airspace for additional
lanes of air traffic at specific choke points during the summer
of 2008; and
(2) a permanent plan to share the military airspace off the
eastern coast of the United States, which--
(A) creates a corridor for commercial flights
seeking to avoid inclement weather or excessive air
traffic; and
(B) provides for immediate reclamation of such
airspace by the Department of Defense in the event of a
national emergency.

SEC. 4. NEW YORK INTEGRATION OFFICE.

(a) Budget Authority.--The Director of the New York Integration
Office of the Federal Aviation Administration is authorized to transfer
any amounts appropriated for the operations of such office to any
function that the Director determines to be necessary to carry out any
flight delay reduction project involving the airspace in the New York-
New Jersey region.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to the Federal Aviation Administration such sums as may be
necessary to carry out the responsibilities of the New York Integration
Office, including hiring necessary support staff.

SEC. 5. AVIATION TRAVELER TASK FORCE.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
(1) While aircraft safety should be a top priority for the
Federal Aviation Administration and air carriers, compliance
with Federal safety regulations should not come at the expense
of passenger convenience.
(2) One of the chief complaints of customers left stranded
during April 2008 by massive cancellations was the lack of
notification about the status of their flights.
(3) Commercial air flight cancellations were announced with
little advance notice, causing many travelers to discover that
their flight was cancelled after they arrived at the airport.
(4) Air carriers have also reduced the number of flights on
their schedules, which has frustrated consumers' attempts to
find replacement flights on other air carriers.
(b) Establishment.--The Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration shall establish an Aviation Traveler Task Force,
comprised of Federal Aviation Administration employees and
representatives of the commercial aviation industry.
(c) Functions.--The Aviation Traveler Task Force shall--
(1) clarify interpretations of safety directives issued by
the Federal Aviation Administration with which air carriers
will soon need to comply;
(2) develop contingency plans in the event that additional
aircraft--
(A) are found to be out of compliance with such
safety directives; and
(B) need to be grounded;
(3) generate ideas for the best way to notify passengers on
a massive scale that their flights have been cancelled; and
(4) design a notification system to alert passengers of
potential service disruptions.
(d) Inspection Plans.--The Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration shall ensure that any standardized plan to perform
inspections of commercial aircraft includes a plan to reduce groundings
and other consequences resulting from such inspections.
Output:
Summer Travel Delay Prevention Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop: (1) a plan for opening up to commercial flights special use airspace for additional lanes of air traffic at specific choke points; and (2) a permanent plan for sharing military airspace off the eastern U.S. coast by such flights.

Authorizes the Director of the New York Integration Office of the FAA to transfer appropriated amounts for Office operations to flight delay reduction projects in airspace over the New York-New Jersey region.

Requires the FAA Administrator to establish an Aviation Traveler Task Force to: (1) clarify interpretations of FAA safety directives with which air carriers will soon need to comply; (2) develop contingency plans in the event that additional aircraft do not comply with such safety directives and need to be grounded; and (3) design a notification system to alert passengers of potential service disruptions.