2007年Interview(1/5)

Nigel Lynch is editor of Business Travel Weekly.

Nigel, thanks for being on the show.

Now what kind of problems do airline passengers face nowadays?

Well, most of the problems are caused by the heavy volume of traffic.

You know, all airports have a limit to the number of takeoffs and landings they can handle.

So what seems to be the problem?

All flights from a busy airport arrive and leave at more or less the same time.

If 60 aircraft are scheduled to take off between 5 pm and 5:15,

and the airport can only handle 120 an hour,

that means some will always be late landing or taking off.

And if the weather is bad, you can imagine what the situation is like.

So passengers have to be loaded into each plane and then the planes have to line up to take off.