The faster airliners fly, the longer it takes short-hop passengers to reach their destinations. More speed, more traffic, more noise and ever bigger planes all this means that airports must be moved farther and farther from the cities that passengers are trying to reach. As a re sult, estimates U.S. Aviation Consultant Laszlo Boszormenyi, a New Yorker fly ing to Washington in a short-range jet now actually averages only 79 m.p.h. midcity to midcity. On the Chicago-Detroit run, the pace drops to 66 m.p.h.
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