At the risk a flaming
... I know that the good 'ole US of A has a large proportion of aircraft movements, but it does seem to have an even greater proportion of near miss (sic) events.
I know we've been there before, but it still needs saying. Procedures imho are not always compatible with best practices.
On another point, why are JFK operations so crAp?
[rant] Last night, albeit with SWAP in place (Severe Weather Procedures) in force, and at other times in general. They have 4 runways, why do they only use 2 of them at the same time? Severe weather to the SW/W, so lets block up the P and Q taxiways with aircraft declined departure and stop aircraft departing to the N etc where the wx is clear. And, the aircraft declined departure shut down and not close enough to the a/c ahead so stopping movement in general, requiring some to enter and taxi down the departure runway to vacate and join the back of the queue. Result, 1 aircraft taking off every 5 or 6 minutes on average for a while, and a 1 hour 40 taxi time
At the same time, the 04/22 taxiways were clear!
If you don't use more than 2 runways, at least clear the gates and park up the aircraft whose routes are closed out of the fvcking way. [/rant over]