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Originally Posted by BBMW
This is a chicken and egg situation. The constraint was imposed because airlines were exceeding the capacity of the airport, causing delays. Add capacity, buy increasing the number of parallel runways and increasing the gate count, would allow the constraints to be increased significantly (four parallel runways could likely support 120 operations per hour or more.)
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Politically that's pretty much dead in the water since any attempt to do more fill in Jamaica Bay will provoke serious opposition. And if there is one thing Cuomo wants to avoid with these projects it's that.