The recent woes of delayed air travelers result from the government's ``staggering failure'' to invest in airports, planes and air traffic control systems, business leaders and passenger advocates say.

Traveler frustration grew last year as airline delays reached record levels. The Transportation Department said planes arrived late 27.4 percent of the time in 2000, 3.5 percentage points worse than the year before and the largest percentage of delays since the department began collecting such data in 1995.
http://biz.yahoo.com/apf/010202/air_travel.html

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The Bush administration, eager to ease airport delays, plans to speed construction of additional runways at major airports across the country by expediting reviews of their environmental impact.
http://www.latimes.com/print/asectio...000009526.html

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