People better wake up. Congress has been legislating to ensure this hell over our heads called the NextGen program (slated implementation 2012-2025) for a LONG time. That's why it's been nothing but studies, committees, etc. in response to the public outcry, and court decisions like this. Congress could end this, but what these elected officials in the pocket of the aviation industry know is that the money and machinery is on their side; they get paid with tax dollars, the program is funded with tax dollars, every minute they spend with the public is paid for by tax dollars, and they work against the public with tax dollars. Who do you think is going to win this if the majority of people accept this assault on our quality of life and a minority is willing to accept so little? Prediction: FAA isn't going to do squat. The strategy is to kill the fight by dragging things on and on.

But all the posters in the other thread say it's Eshoo's fault!