Originally Posted by
bocastephen
The ATC system, although antiquated, is as much to blame as the airlines themselves who exchanged capacity for frequency and overloaded the skies with excess aircraft.
Before we start collectively throwing darts at the FAA, let's ask the airlines what impact they think they had by exchanging 3 daily 757s or D10s for 2 737s and 6 RJs.
bocastephen, you hit the nail on the head. Airlines at LGA fly smaller regional jets instead of larger aircraft just to maintain their slots and keep out competition. Congress needs to allow some of these legacy carrier to go bust or merge. It pi$$es me off when I hear the airlines blame general aviation for clogging the airspace. If that was the case, I'd be getting the same priority when I'm trying to enter the DC ADIZ in my 172 as a 777 coming in to land at IAD.