The most important air-travel news we've seen this week is a report from the Government Accountability Office about "runway incursions," those times when aircraft come too close together at airports or too close to other vehicles on ramps and taxiways. This report got some national media coverage -- we saw it on the ABC network last night -- but not too much locally. So here's a full AP story.
PHL is in the report: It had about 35 incursions in the six years (federal fiscals 2001 through 2006) covered, although the vast majority at PHL were not graded as "serious," meaning two airplanes narrowly or barely avoided a collsion that could have cost many lives. Many more of the serious incursions occurred at Los Angeles International and Chicago O'Hare airports. Click on the full GAO report to learn more.
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