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AP Centerpiece: New runway in Atlanta could reduce air delays across U.S.
(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: DANIEL YEE
As a business traveler who flies 100,000 miles a year on Delta Air Lines, Jay Spencer is used to flying through the world's busiest hub at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
As a result, he's very familiar with the airport's infamous delays _ anything, he says, lasting from 15 minutes to three hours.
"They say you don't go to heaven or hell without flying through Atlanta," said the 45-year-old real estate investor from Salt Lake City.
Thanks to a new 9,000-foot (2,700-meter) runway scheduled to open in Atlanta on May 27, the airport's officials are pledging to cut those delays in half, which also could mean fewer and shorter delays throughout the entire air transportation network in the United States and possibly around the world.
That's because no other airport in the world handles more passengers. Nearly 86 million people pass through the Atlanta airport each year on more than 980,000 flights _ one taking off or landing about every 30 seconds. They fly direct to 157 cities in the United States and 65 others in 43 different countries.
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