Comments on: FAA, DOT and airlines battle over solutions to NY airspace crowding http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/faa-dot-and-airlines-battle-over-solutions-to-ny-airspace-crowding/ The last honest travel site Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Farrell http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/faa-dot-and-airlines-battle-over-solutions-to-ny-airspace-crowding/comment-page-1/#comment-4471 Joe Farrell Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:55:44 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5047#comment-4471 Actually - let me clairfiy - CLOSE LGA to airlines - keep it open for General Aviation and CLOSE Teterboro in NJ - that frees up the traffic pattern for Newark. Actually – let me clairfiy – CLOSE LGA to airlines – keep it open for General Aviation and CLOSE Teterboro in NJ – that frees up the traffic pattern for Newark.

]]> By: Joe Farrell http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/faa-dot-and-airlines-battle-over-solutions-to-ny-airspace-crowding/comment-page-1/#comment-4470 Joe Farrell Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:54:35 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=5047#comment-4470 Where are they gonna put the airplane? Ever flown over or into the airports themselves? With clear skies and west winds the LGA landing airplanes need to overfly the JFK departing airplanes, and those are both departing the landing traffic for EWR - for TEB - GA has it bad. When the weather gets bad - then no one can evade each other visually and the whole party stacks up all the way to Cleveland. Want to relieve stress on the airports? Turn McGuire AFB and Stewart Airport in Newburgh into the International Airports for NYC. CLOSE LGA. Build a high speed train that gets from Penn and Grand Central, with 2 stops in NJ or CT on the way, to these airports in less than 45 minutes. Add a line to Hartford and Albany - ALL international flights either leave from one of those 2 airports. Those airports are off the NY, BOS and PHL flight paths and the delays would be minimal right now - you could also add runways and terminals. There has to be a better way - the savings in fuel, delays and time would pay for the construction of the airports and new runways in less than a decade. Keep JFK and EWR open and intermodal them - so you can make a connection internationally in less than 90 minutes - or what it is now. Gotta blow up the drawing board and think big to solve a big problem. Where are they gonna put the airplane? Ever flown over or into the airports themselves? With clear skies and west winds the LGA landing airplanes need to overfly the JFK departing airplanes, and those are both departing the landing traffic for EWR – for TEB – GA has it bad.

When the weather gets bad – then no one can evade each other visually and the whole party stacks up all the way to Cleveland.

Want to relieve stress on the airports? Turn McGuire AFB and Stewart Airport in Newburgh into the International Airports for NYC. CLOSE LGA.

Build a high speed train that gets from Penn and Grand Central, with 2 stops in NJ or CT on the way, to these airports in less than 45 minutes. Add a line to Hartford and Albany – ALL international flights either leave from one of those 2 airports. Those airports are off the NY, BOS and PHL flight paths and the delays would be minimal right now – you could also add runways and terminals.

There has to be a better way – the savings in fuel, delays and time would pay for the construction of the airports and new runways in less than a decade.

Keep JFK and EWR open and intermodal them – so you can make a connection internationally in less than 90 minutes – or what it is now. Gotta blow up the drawing board and think big to solve a big problem.

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