Tenacious
Dec 4, 07, 1:05 pm
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
December 4, 2007
It's the evening before Thanksgiving, a day stuffed with travelers, but Continental Airlines Flight 392 taxies past other airplanes in Newark, N.J., and makes the three-hour trip to Orlando in just two hours and 41 minutes.
The reason? Flight 392 was one of 60 Continental flights to use two air corridors that were opened in military airspace just for the holiday rush.
The military has virtually all the airspace just off the East Coast locked up for training, but when President Bush opened some to commercial flights to ease holiday travel, airlines jumped at the chance. Southwest Airlines had a dozen flights a day over the ocean -- jets flying from airports in New York and New England to Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando in Florida.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119672575604212422.html
December 4, 2007
It's the evening before Thanksgiving, a day stuffed with travelers, but Continental Airlines Flight 392 taxies past other airplanes in Newark, N.J., and makes the three-hour trip to Orlando in just two hours and 41 minutes.
The reason? Flight 392 was one of 60 Continental flights to use two air corridors that were opened in military airspace just for the holiday rush.
The military has virtually all the airspace just off the East Coast locked up for training, but when President Bush opened some to commercial flights to ease holiday travel, airlines jumped at the chance. Southwest Airlines had a dozen flights a day over the ocean -- jets flying from airports in New York and New England to Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando in Florida.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119672575604212422.html