New Routes

[Bill Bridges]

The FAA has new routes for the East Coast.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/01/faa-launches-faster-east-coast-routes-to-avoid-congestion.html

[B.Butler]

The FAA has new routes for the East Coast.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/01/faa-...ongestion.html

Generally, a very poorly written article, but here is one real howler: "The FAA estimated that the new routes would reduce about 6,000 minutes of travel time a year."

Let me think...6,000 minutes, 10,000,000 (domestic) flights per year...

[Dusty Rider]

Each one of those minutes will be eaten up by metering delays.

[B.Butler]

Each one of those minutes will be eaten up by metering delays.

Not hard to do. 6000 minutes, after all is 100 hours/ year or .036 seconds per flight.

[Dusty Rider]

Not hard to do. 6000 minutes, after all is 100 hours/ year or .036 seconds per flight.

But the fuel savings, Bill. The FUEL savings!

[Russell Holton]

But the fuel savings, Bill. The FUEL savings!

That's less CO2, so less greenhouse gasses!