"Gattman" wrote:
Found on today's Drudge Report
....
The reality is that the root causes of the delays are manifold -
airports with little or no spare capacity, a 1950s air traffic control
system, and burgeoning demand for direct flights to smaller cities.

I'd blame the hub-and-spoke model entirely. Everything else follows from
that choice.

Ironically direct flights between cities would be a more efficient use of
the NAS. Direct flights would also free up capacity and reduce crowding at
the current spoke airports.

Thanks to the hub-and-spoke model I've been in the airports of many large
cities and yet have never been outside those airports to see those cities
from the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoke-h...ution_paradigm