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Delays worse after JFK runway work done
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle | An Air Traffic Controller looks out from the JFK control tower towards runway 31left/13 right and Jamaica Bay. Flight delays at Kennedy Airport have gotten worse since the airport's busiest runway (31left/13 right) was closed for reconstruction nearly two years ago despite claims that a new runway and taxiways would help reduce delays, according to U.S. Department of Transportation statistics. (Jan. 26, 2012)
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Flight delays at Kennedy Airport have worsened since the completion of a $376 million runway reconstruction project that officials had vowed would ease air traffic problems, according to U.S. Department of Transportation statistics.
When construction began in March 2010, officials said the revamped Runway 13R-31L would reduce flight delays by cutting the time planes spent traveling to and...
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