Have you ever been stuck at the airport waiting hours past your scheduled departure time to take off? Or have you ever arrived to your destination hours past the estimated arrival time? Chances are if you traveled in 2007 you have been.

In 2007, almost one quarter of all domestic flights within the United States were delayed. Last year was the airline industries second worst performance ever, with almost 26 percent of flights canceled or delayed. Congestion in the skies was intensified by a rising in demand for airline travel as well as many of the air traffic controllers reaching the retirement age.

This problem is not set to be fixed any time soon. As airlines are replacing aging large aircrafts with smaller ones, airports and runways are becoming packed with too many aircrafts. There is a larger demand for small aircrafts because airliners hope to maximize their profit margins by having little to no empty seats on their airplanes. This practice, while it increases efficiency and profit for the airlines, places more and more aircrafts in to the air, only increasing congestion and delays and cancellations. Many airlines also overbook then cancel passengers at the last moment.

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