Slot Swap Deal Good For Medium-Size Airports

By Fredrick Piccolo
OpEd by Sarasota Bradenton Airport President and CEO

The FAA’s system of landing and takeoff slots at New York LaGuardia and Washington Reagan National airports has been in place for most of the last 42 years, in one form or another. In early 2001, when a new law required the FAA to issue a large number of new slots for LaGuardia, gridlock from that overburdened airfield spread across the country. The FAA quickly adopted an emergency rule under which it has been controlling access to New York-area airports since then ...

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