First they root for the Yankees, then they muck up our air travel. At a Capitol Hill discussion Tuesday on air traffic congestion, George Donohue, co-author of the book “Terminal Chaos: Why U.S. Air Travel Is Broken and How to Fix It,” brought up the Big Apple as air enemy No. 1.
“I need to talk about New York,” he said. “In New York, they think they are very important.”
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“We are!” shouted an audience member, as if on cue.
“That’s what they all say,” Donohue came back.
Donohue explained that “50 percent of passenger delays are from the same 10 airports,” and JFK Airport is the most congested in the nation.
Typical.