Flight Delays? MIT May Have the Fix.

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  09.10.08 | 12:11 PM ET

imageGood 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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Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


2 Comments for Flight Delays? MIT May Have the Fix.

Michael Yessis 09.10.08 | 2:36 PM ET

Go MIT’s finest. Excellent work, and thank you in advance on behalf of delayed travelers everywhere.

Jack from eyeflare travel tips 09.14.08 | 10:27 AM ET

This should be such an improvement, especially in the archaic US flight control system. I’m hoping things improve very shortly from this.

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