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THE BATTALION
Airlines trade fuel efficiency
for quicker, on-time arrivals
DALLAS (AP) — In a travel sea
son rife with late arrivals and can
celed flights, several airlines have be
gun flying at lower altitudes, trading
fuel efficiency for on-time arrivals.
The FAA more than a year ago
gave airlines approval to operate
some short flights — up to 500 miles
— at between 8,000 feet and 23,000
feet. But airlines had resisted until re
cently because flying through denser
air at lower altitudes burns more fuel.
Low road to quicker service
To offer improved on-time service during one of the most delay-ridden
summers, airlines are beginning to cruise at lower altitudes where there
is less traffic. Mere is a look at how the Federal Aviation Administration
regulates airplane traffic for both the normal cruising altitudes and the
Low Altitude Arrival Departure Routes (LAADR) flights.
30 High altitude
cruising
29 Most airliners must wait
for appropriate breaks
28 in the cruising traffic,
making these routes
27 more congested.
Low altitude
21 cruising
^ Though the same
separation rules apply,
19 LAADR routes are less
congested.
1,000
5 nautical miles
The FAA requires at least 5
nautical miles between
aircraft and at least 1,000 to
2,000 ft. vertically, depending
on plane's altitude.
Less congestion creates
more opportunities for
planes to take off and enter
cruising altitudes.
More horizontal space
is-a*-^
1,800 Average daily delays 1
1.600 Average number of system-wide delays
, 400 of 15 minutes or more as
reported to the FAA.
Summer 1997 Summer 1998 Summer 1999
Sources: Federal Aviation Administration: compiled from AP wire reports
Jones
executed
for 1986
slaying
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) —
Proclaiming his innocence to the
end, convicted killer Richard Wayne
Jones was executed Tuesday evening
for abducting and fatally stabbing a
Tarrant County woman 14 years ago,
then burning her body.
Jones acknowledged setting fire
to slain Tammy Livingston, 27, of
Hurst, but said he wasn’t responsible
for the 17 stab wounds that killed her.
“I want the victim’s family to
know 1 didn’t commit this crime,”
Jones said while strapped to the
death chamber gurney.
“I didn’t kill your loved one,” he
said while members of his victims
family watched from a window a few
feet away.
He criticized prosecutors for con
victing an innocent man, adding, “I
hope you can live with it.”
Then he turned to his own rela
tives and friends who watched from
another window and thanked them
for their support and expressed his
love. “Y’all stay strong,” he said.
Then he turned toward the war
den and said “Warden, take me
home.” He gasped twice, let out a
slight grunt and was pronounced
dead at 6:19 p.m., seven minutes af
ter the lethal drugs began flowing.
“I want the vic
tim's family to
know I didn't
commit this
crime. I didn't kill
your loved one.”
— Richard Wayne Jones
inmate executed for murder
Jones, 40, was the 30th Texas
prisoner put to death this year, the
fourth this month and first of two this
week.
Another convicted murderer,
David Gibbs, is set to die Wednes
day evening for the rape-slaying of
a Conroe woman, one of two
women killed in a 1985 attack. The
U.S. Supreme Court, which re
fused to halt the Jones punishment,
also rejected appeals this week
from Gibbs, clearing the way for
his execution.
Jones, with a criminal past that in
cluded theft, burglary and robbery
convictions and.a parole violation
that returned him to prison, was on
parole for about 4 1/2 months when
he was arrested for killing Livingston
Feb. 19, 1986.
But with thousands of flight de
lays drawing the ire of travelers and
the eye of federal regulators, more
airlines are turning to this quick fix.
After meeting with airline, union
and airport executives Monday,
Transportation Secretary Rodney
Slater announced the formation of a
task force to monitor airline service.
Slater said his department will
serve as a clearinghouse to share in
formation, resulting in improved
performance. For example,
Slater said, airlines have
promised to more promptly in
form the Federal Aviation Ad
ministration when they cancel
flights, so air traffic controllers
can more efficiently use the
available airspace.
Some 670 million Americans
will fly this year, up 20 million
from a year ago and an increase
that is taxing the system and
could not have been foreseen.
Slater said.
The Federal Aviation Admin
istration reported more than
44,000 flight delays in July
alone, and that was an improve
ment from June. Delays have
been attributed to increased num
bers of people traveling, bad
weather and — at least for one
airline — labor disagreements.
Though it costs more in fuel, air
line officials say the low-altitude
routes allow them to complete more
flights on time, cutting the need for
relief crews.
Because flight patterns at high-al-
titude, fuel-saving routes have be
come congested. Low Altitude Ar
rival Departure Routes — called
“ladder” flights in the industry —
are designed to allow planes to “get
off the ground instead of waiting in
queue,” said FAA spokesman Paul
Turk.
Northwest Airlines, TWA, Delta,
Continental and US Airways tested
the routes in some cities this spring.
At Chicago’s busy O’Hare Interna
tional Airport, United Airlines began
rerouting some departing planes to
underused, lower-altitude flight paths
in June.
And Fort Worth-based American
Airlines could begin the low flights
this week, pending approval of a
memorandum of understanding with
the FAA, American Airlines
spokesman John Hotard said.
At United, between 30 and 40
LAADR flights take off from
O’Hare daily, saving an average of
two minutes on the ground and about
10 in the air, spokesman Joe Hopkins
said. And the airline is considering
adding up to 30 more.
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