The Federal Aviation Administration is letting airways proceed to cut back their flights within the New York Metropolis space past summer time and into this fall
FILE – Folks wait in a TSA line on the John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport on June 28, 2022, in New York. Going through a scarcity of air visitors controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration mentioned Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, that it’ll let airways proceed to restrict flights within the New York Metropolis space into October with out penalties that they might usually face for such reductions. (AP Photograph/Julia Nikhinson, File)
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Going through a scarcity of air visitors controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration mentioned Wednesday that it’ll let airways proceed to restrict flights within the New York Metropolis space into October with out penalties that they might usually face for such reductions.
Airways that fail to make use of sufficient of their takeoff and touchdown rights or “slots” at these airports threat dropping them to opponents.
The FAA mentioned, nevertheless, it’ll prolong present easing of these guidelines via Oct. 28 as a result of the staffing scarcity is past the management of the airways. The waivers had been set to run out Sept. 15, after the height summer time journey season.
Airways together with Delta, American, United and JetBlue had agreed to cuts at LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports in New York and Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey.
“The reduction supplied by the FAA throughout the peak of the summer time season has supplied stability on the NYC space airports,” the FAA mentioned. The company mentioned canceled flights on the three huge New York Metropolis-area airports from Could 15 via June 30 fell 40% from the identical interval final 12 months.
The FAA mentioned airways have decreased their New York flights this summer time by 6%, however elevated the variety of seats by 2% by utilizing bigger planes on common.
The waiver of penalties additionally applies to some flights at Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport close to Washington, D.C.
United Airways, which has lower flights at its huge hub in Newark, and commerce group Airways for America had requested FAA to increase the penalty waivers.
In a report back to Congress this spring, the FAA detailed its efforts to rent and practice about 3,000 new air visitors controllers. The company is simply half-staffed at a key facility that directs planes out and in of the New York Metropolis space.
