FAA ISSUES NOTICE FOR JFK AND LGA SCHEDULE SUBMISSION WAIVER
October 18, 2023
The FAA issued two notices for the W23/24 and S24 scheduling seasons that state that the FAA is issuing a limited waiver of minimum slot usage requirements at JFK and LGA, to allow carriers to return up to 10% of slots at each airport. The FAA is making such changes because there has not been a big enough increase in the number of certified controllers at the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (N90) that would allow the FAA to handle normal traffic levels. Similarly for the same seasons, the FAA is allowing a limited policy for prioritizing returned operations at EWR to allow carriers to return up to 10% of their approved operating timings, for purposes of establishing operational baselines for the next corresponding seasons. In addition, to better align scheduled operations with runway operational capacity, the S24 Schedule Submission Notice announces a new voluntary, targeted hourly scheduling limit at EWR. Based on actual runway operations, the targeted scheduling limit is reduced to 77 operations per hour and 42 operations per half hour. To balance arrivals and departures, the targeted maximum number of scheduled arrivals and departures, respectively, will be 42 in an hour and 23 in a half-hour. Please note that this “voluntary targeted hourly scheduling limit” is not being offered at JFK.
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