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<blockquote><blockquote>In my experience JFK is pretty solid. considering its one of the busiest and largest airports in the world. Charles Degalle in Paris is another story...you FUCK that airport. I'll pay an extra $100 to fly to frankfurt over that place any day. </blockquote> According to the flight crew, they build in one hour delays at JFK. Apparently, Congress maybe getting involved. I have never had these kinds of problems in my regular stop overs in Chi, or Minn or Cincinnati. </blockquote> I hear about this stuff all the time, my girlfriend is an air traffic controller who controls JFK arrivals and departures from 40 miles out to 4 miles out. Ever see Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton? That's what she does. Most of the time when you're stuck it't not because of the bullshit that they tell you on the plane. The only thing that is usually true is the weather-related reasons. She gets calls from friends all the time who are stuck at the gate, saying things like "they're telling us there is a delay because of XYZ reason, and we won't be taking off anytime soon, is there anything you can do?" I've seen her make a quick phone call to her job and then the friend calls back within 5-10 minutes on some "THANK YOU!! I don't know what you did but we're leaving". The majority of the time that you're stuck it's because air traffic is too backed up for anyone to take off and the air traffic controllers will have all the flights stopped until things sort out. They won't tell you that though. Congress is going to get involved. There's a shortage of controllers and they are being forced to work an extra day every week since a lot of people retired. At the same time they changed a flight law that said foreign airlines could only come to the US from their country of origin (Aer Lingus could only come here from Ireland for example), they can now come here from anywhere. Flights to the US increased immediately. So you have more flights and less people to handle the traffic. Do the math, it means more delays on your flights. Any young directionless folks on here who are looking for work, air traffic control pays a lot of money but the job is incredibly stressful. They're starving for people.

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