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Pilots play the slot game when flying to ski country

Instead of relaxing in front of a warm fire inside a cozy Colorado mountain lodge this winter, some pilots are sitting at home in front of their computer m

January 11, 2008

Instead of relaxing in front of a warm fire inside a cozy Colorado mountain lodge this winter, some pilots are sitting at home in front of their computer monitors, hot under the collar. Most pilots realize that managing seasonal air traffic into ski country is like funneling an L.A. freeway onto a two-lane country road, but some believe that the FAA’s Denver Center has a flawed system of assigning precious arrival slots to the few airports serving major ski resorts.

The FAA contends that it has done its best to refine the system, but capacity at peak travel times is severely limited–especially in IMC.

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