On Wed, 09 May 2007 17:30:09 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote in
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Unless more runways are built, the NAS capacity for aircraft will be
more limited by available runways than airspace.

It is clear to me that there are a shortage of concrete and terminal
facilities at present. It's so bad, that Los Angeles pax are driving
to Ontario to catch flights:


http://www.latimes.com/news/local/va...ditions-valley
The airport is farther, but the trip may be shorter, cheaper
LAX rivals may offer less hassle and lower costs. Websites make it
easy to compare.
By Peter Pae, Times Staff Writer
May 6, 2007

Sandra Martin lives in Westchester, minutes from Los Angeles
International Airport. But she and her husband flew out of Ontario
when they took their two daughters on a trip over spring break.

It sounds kind of crazy until you add it up: The family paid $4
less a day for parking and dodged incalculable levels of stress,
breezing through security in five minutes, a feat with 7-year-old
twins. The hour or so on the road to LA/Ontario International
Airport hardly mattered to them, considering they saved $400 on
airfare by booking flights to Spokane, Wash., on a regional
carrier that doesn't serve L.A.'s biggest airport.

"We couldn't have done this at LAX," Martin says. ...


But to overlook the impact on the NAS that doubling the number of
flights concurrently airborne would be shortsighted.