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Special traffic management challenged flight operations for Super Bowl
From Friday, February 1 through the morning of Super Bowl Sunday two days later, Retha Slade, customer service manager for General Aviation Corp.

From Friday, February 1 through the morning of Super Bowl Sunday two days later, Retha Slade, customer service manager for General Aviation Corp. at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY), placed Mardi Gras beads around the necks of unsuspecting flight crews and customers as they entered the company’s newly completed FBO on the north end of the field. The pace of the operation was unusually calm, then at times dramatically accelerated to near chaos as the uniqueness of the event captured the moment.

The runways of New Orleans are no strangers to large events that bring an onslaught of flight crews that have one objective in mind–to get in and out as fast as possible. But this time crews were anxious to capitalize on brief windows of opportunity, and something new to New Orleans–slot restrictions.

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