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Old Jul 10, 2023 | 4:59 pm
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prestonh
 
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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.
At the moment Florida is metered at 100 arrivals per hour (it was at 50) and was up to a 3 hr delay. Under the Flow Constrained Area (FCA) it works like slots across a line. Arrivals to the line are timed to manage the flow based on the control rate.

https://nbaa.org/aircraft-operations...w-program-afp/
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