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Government Threatens to Cap O'Hare Flights to Limit Delays

The Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation are threatening to limit the number of flights in and out of O'Hare airport, the nation's largest, in order to reduce delays that are affecting flights across the country. Reuters reports:

U.S. aviation regulators threatened on Wednesday to again cap commercial flights at Chicago's O'Hare airport to reduce delays that are slowing down the rest of the nation's aviation system.

"We are going to do something about this problem right here and now," Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told airline executives before an unprecedented meeting aimed at achieving much broader concessions on scheduling than carriers had agreed to previously.

"We are going to get schedules in line with present capacity at O'Hare," Mineta told officials from UAL Corp.'s United Airlines, AMR Corp.'s American Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc. and a dozen other passenger and cargo carriers.

Rick Bruner | August 4, 2004 | News | Permanent link
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