FAA Releases JFK Flight Caps: 81 Per Hour
Oct 19, 2007
By Adrian Schofield
FAA will attempt to cap flights at New York Kennedy Airport to 81 an hour during afternoon peak times, which appears to mean airlines will have to make significant cuts to existing schedules.
The agency released its targets Friday afternoon, and will use them during an airline scheduling conference planned for Oct. 23-24. During closed-door sessions, airlines will be asked to volunteer flight cuts to meet the flight limits.
FAA said it is looking to limit JFK operations to 80 flights an hour between 6a.m. and 10p.m., and 81 flights an hour between 3p.m. and 8p.m. Additionally, targets were set for 30 and 15 minute blocks -- 44 and 24 operations, respectively. Neither the arrival total nor departure total can exceed 53 an hour, to balance runway operations.
As an example of current levels, on the evening of Oct. 18 there were two hour-long periods -- 5p.m.-6p.m. and 8p.m.-9p.m. -- where there were about 90 operations, according to FAA data.
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