Originally Posted by
JimInOhio
That's quite a stretch by the airline industry. I just looked up the FAA advisory and all it mentions are delays crossing the restriction zone. There's nothing about slots being dropped.
You’re conflating cause and effect.
The FAA is not slowing flights down before they enter ZJX, but keeping capacity the same — how would that help anything? Rather, the FAA is reducing the number of flights they’re allowing to operate through that sector, thus leading to the delays.
If the airlines are scheduling 30 flights per hour through that sector, and the FAA is only going to allow 20, that’s 10 flights per hour that need to be addressed. Sure, if there are no other flights scheduled for the following hour, they could just be delayed. But if the sector is scheduled to capacity for the next six hours, now you’ve got a net deficit of 60 flights.
Eventually, you’re going to have to cancel some.