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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In other words, lots of people say money and technology would reduce delays, but you continue to resist the notion because I suggested it.
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i will respond to your post as best i can understand it. Those of us with technical degrees agree that flights can be shorter, and thus likely also cheaper, with GPS ATC. I'm not sure how much cost could be involved in the switch, as the satellites exist. Perhaps closing the radar spots will result in some jobs lost, but fuck them. We should go to GPS.
but, that has nothing to do with flight delays. If we switch we will have shorter expected flight times, but i don't see why delays would be reduced.
no one in any of the learned pieces I read, or the popular pieces I linked, says delays will be reduced. If flights times are shortened then arrival times will be shortened, then when the flight is 5 minutes late it will still be delayed.
Your bloggers meant "if we make a 5 hour flight 1/2 hour shorter, then the new shorter flights will less likely be delayed if we keep the fiction of the old arrival times." I mean fuck, let's go back to arrival times from the 50s. I bet delta is around 95% on time right now with that as the goal.
