FAA Sets New Rules at Busiest Airports

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Federal air-safety regulators have ordered changes in landing and takeoff procedures at more than a dozen big airports—including six of the 10 busiest U.S. fields—to reduce the hazards of airborne collisions.

Pilots and air-safety experts support the changes, recommended last summer by the National Transportation Safety Board, but said they could worsen delays at peak times or in bad weather.

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