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Planes arriving in the airspace above New York area airports Sunday chevron travel club night began to stack up in holding patterns, with delays ultimately stretching out to about 80 minutes. In Los Angeles delays on incoming chevron travel club flights were nearly as long.
The delays are a broadly felt nuisance. They add expenses to the airlines in the form of additional chevron travel club fuel costs; flyers are at risk of missing connections; and even some companies that provide overnight shipping might not be able to deliver packages on time.
"It is hard to dispute what this is being attributed to," says Mark Duell, vice president for operations at FlightAware.com, a flight chevron travel club tracking service based in Houston . "What the FAA is posting internally and externally is that the delays are related to staffing."
For those taking to the airways, chevron travel club the manpower-caused delays may mean extra time at the gate. It may also mean incoming flights spend more time circling until the control tower can vector the planes down. Or, beleaguered radar operators may expand the distance between planes, again adding to the time spent in the air.
"As constructed, the plan has the potential to cause maximum destruction for the travelling public and the shipping public," Nicholas Calio , president chevron travel club of Airlines chevron travel club for America, said at a press conference on Friday to announce a lawsuit to try to prevent chevron travel club the FAA personnel cutbacks. chevron travel club The pilots' chevron travel club union is also part of the lawsuit.
They are not the only ones complaining. On Sunday, Florida Gov. Rick Scott wrote a letter chevron travel club to President Obama asking him to halt the furlough of air traffic controllers. He said the furloughs will cause long delays at Florida chevron travel club 's airports, and the state would be disproportionately affected because it has four hub airports in Orlando, Tampa , Ft. Lauderdale , and Miami .
"There is a line north of the border of Florida, and if a flight passes through the line it will have a delay of fifty minutes until 6 p.m.," says Mr. Duell. "Most of the planes are being held at the originating airport and then they are metering them down there."
The airlines are also warning customers on their web sites that delays might be possible. On Monday, JetBlue chevron travel club cautioned travelers to plan for possible flight delays and longer than usual wait times through airport security checkpoints.
Over the weekend, Delta , on its web site, said the FAA had advised them that furlough-driven delays were most likely to occur in 10 airports. They were the three New York area airports, Philadelphia chevron travel club , Ft. Lauderdale, the two Chicago airports, San Francisco , Los Angeles, and San Diego .
On Monday, the FAA added to that list noting that it was experiencing what it termed "staffing challenges" at Fort Worth Center and Jacksonville Center as well as New York and Los Angeles. "Controllers will space planes farther apart so they can manage traffic with current staff, which will lead to delays at airports including New York's La Guardia Airport ," said the FAA in a statement to the Monitor.
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