Anyone travelling to Florida, and Anna Maria Island, for Thanksgiving this year may be in for a nice surprise in the airport terminal. Travelers may recall a surprisingly trouble-free experience last holiday season when military air space was freed up to help reduce crowding at airports and prevent flight delays.
Hoping to repeat that success, President Bush yesterday announced the Pentagon once again will open two corridors of airspace from Florida to Maine, normally used for military exercises, to create a 'Thanksgiving express lane' for commercial flights.
Sounds like one less thing to worry about over the holiday season at least.
Bush’s action last year followed consumer protests from Floridians and others who objected to long delays at airports.
A White House summary of steps taken to ease travel also includes an unprecedented effort to reduce air congestion by boosting flight capacity at some of America's busiest airports, working with the Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Security Administration to make more staff available to speed up check-in and boarding and to help passengers affected by cancellations and delays and advancing a regulation to hold airlines accountable for how they treat passengers during long delays.
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