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Travel Forecasting Takes Off Link to mitre.org
June 10, 2008

Planning to fly from New York to Los Angeles seems like a simple enough proposition. However, there's an array of factors for the traveler to consider. For starters, in the New York metro area, it's possible to depart from one of at least three airports, while in L.A., there are no less than five airports in the region, all of which support varying degrees of air traffic and passenger travel.

Air Traffic Control 101 Adobe Acrobat PDF File
April 25, 2008

Last August, the Department of Transportation reported that airline delays in the United States were at their highest level since the agency started keeping statistics in 1995. Part of the blame for the delays is that demand for air travel is rising at a rate of four percent a year. It doesn’t help matters that approximately two-thirds of the nation’s 15,000 air traffic controllers are expected to retire within the next decade.

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