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To: TimF who wrote (364689)	12/29/2007 5:37:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) of 1577228

What's Wrong with Air Travel? More than 760 million passengers travel on U.S. airlines each year. PARADE asked Marion Blakey, who recently left her post as head of the Federal Aviation Administration, what the government is doing to make flying less stressful. What has gone wrong with air travel? We’re in the safest period in aviation history, but some of our current system is built on World War II technology. Planes must fly on specific highways in the sky to maintain contact with the ground. It costs time and fuel and is inefficient. Recently, the White House opened up military airspace to help with the travel crunch. Why don’t we do this all the time? Freeing up military airspace isn’t a permanent solution. We need to redesign how we use airspace and fly on the most efficient flight paths. So, can we fix air travel? The world is moving toward a satellite-based system to handle more planes and allow them to fly shorter distances on optimal flight plans. It will cost us about $1 billion a year in investment and won’t be operational until at least 2013. Until then, what can people do to make flying better? Leave early in the day, fly in the middle of the week and check the on-time record of your flight. We also must invest in aviation research and get kids interested in math and science, or else we’ll face a pilot and engineer shortage. parade.com

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