1. Reason Foundation PolicyBrief No. 67 195 Appendix F. Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 of the
2. European Parliament and ofthe Council of 11February 2004 211 Appendix H. Why Not 100%?MathematicalJustification for
3. Delays and customer complaints reached record levels in 2007. The President has made it clear that he will not tolerate a repeat of the travel nightmares passengers experienced last summer, and he is personally committed to rooting out the congestion and delays that are plaguing air travel today
4. At a January 2008 meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board, we made apresentation to a collection of experts in air transportation and publicly stated that the much advertised space-based Next Generation Air Traffic Management System will add no significant increase in system capacity or, therefore, anydecrease in flight delays or flight cancellations!With approximately 100 experts in attendance, no one challenged this statement. The new technology is good, but it will not address our key problems.