Your Flight Delay Is Probably New York's Fault

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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To ease flight delays and staffing shortages in the New York City area, the FAA shifted oversight of Newark Airport’s airspace to Philadelphia earlier this year. But WSJ’s Andrew Tangel reports that problems remain and new risks have surfaced. Further Listening: -How Spirit Airlines Landed in Bankruptcy -How Southwest Airlines Melted Down Further Reading: -Why Fixing New York Air Traffic Has Been a Bumpy Ride -To Ease Newark Flight Delays, the FAA Turned to Philly. Here’s Why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you were stranded in an airport over Thanksgiving weekend or sitting on the
0:09.1	tarmac for a long time waiting to take off, there's a pretty good chance you can blame New York.
0:15.9	New York has been a major bottleneck for years.
0:21.4	That's our colleague Andrew Tangle.
0:23.2	He covers aviation.
0:24.7	It's some of the most complex airspace in the world, definitely in the country.
0:31.1	So if you think about it, you've got Newark, you've got LaGuardia, you've got JFK,
0:37.2	and you've got all theseuardia, JFK,
0:37.5	and you've got all these other little airports around them,
0:41.2	like Teterboro and so forth,
0:43.2	and they're all stacked on top of each other.
0:45.6	And planes coming from all around the world,
0:49.6	helicopters, sightseeing tours in Manhattan,
0:52.2	it's all just right there together, and there's not much space, kind of like a metaphor for New York City.
0:58.0	And when the airspace in New York has congested, it has an outsized impact on the rest of the country.
1:04.0	Airlines are finely tuned operations, and once that's thrown off, it just sort of cascades through the nation's air travel
1:12.3	system.
1:15.6	The Federal Aviation Administration is estimated that as much as 75% of the country's flight delays
1:21.4	stem from problems related to New York.
1:24.2	75%.
1:25.6	The reason there are so many delays around New York
1:29.1	isn't just because it's a complicated airspace.
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