The Excruciating, Impossible Science of Airport Delays
Friday morning began with delays at New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport. That\u2019s not unusual\u2014New York\u2019s airports are famously balky. But this time, the cause wasn't something prosaic, like a blizzard. It was staffing. Because of the federal government shutdown, the airport didn\u2019t have enough Transportation Security Administration agents and air traffic controllers; things slowed to a ground stop.