2) Project terminated indefinately... All consolidations are on hold. I hear the 'true' values in relocating them were explored. Yes doable, but cost recovery in 10+ years; just invest the $150M or so in bonds now and forget about it; that would make significantly more than the saving generated by the consolidations.
HJ, Yesterday we had Wx giving us a landing rate 187 seconds (or there abouts). With PRM this would have been somewhere near (127 seconds); so delays increased, I think most customers got 15 minutes each airborne.
The reason that you get more 'delays' when the PRM is on is because the CTMS rate is up to 55 arrivals per hour; when no PRM it's as low as 35 (less if it single runway too).
So more delays (significant) on the ground (strategic flow) and less tactical (airborne), because there aren't as many up there and we can be more flexible with the 'string of pearls'. But trust us when we say PRM increases capacity.