Flight Delays? MIT May Have the Fix.

Good news for passengers who have started building near-inevitable flight delays into their travel plans: MIT’s finest are hard at work on a new tool to help air traffic controllers quickly reroute flights around bad patches of weather.

“It’s light years ahead of the current system, which amounts to little more than air traffic controllers using their best guess and hoping it works out,” Wired’s Dave Demerjian writes. “Beta testing shows the system works, too—it’s already cut delays at New York airports by 2,300 hours.”

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