Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"The New York City metropolitan-area airspace is completely saturated and near gridlock... More than one-third of all air traffic delays in the country on June 28 were in congested New York airspace."

Source: James May, president of the Air Transport Association, lobbying group for the nation's largest airlines. On Monday the ATA requested the Federal Aviation Administration create temporary additional airspace capacity over the upcoming holiday period, by imposing ground delay programs at Teterboro Airport and other nearby general aviation airports when the agency imposes such programs at Newark Liberty International Airport, LaGuardia International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.

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