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The article mentions Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport with a focus on solving the problems of safety and traffic flow at major airports in the United States. Solutions to airport congestion include expanding peak-load capacity by building more airports, improving air traffic control by implementing the National Airspace System, and allocating landing and flight space by fiat rationing. The locational dimension of traffic patterns, passengers' preferences, role of ticket prices in relation to airport use, effect of price differentials on distribution of demand, recommendations of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the FAA Bureau of National Capitol Airports are mentioned.

Abstract: A one-shot simultaneous game-theoretic model is applied in a duopoly market to investigate how airport landing fees could influence airlines’ decisions on aircraft size and service frequency. It is found that higher landing fees will force airlines to use larger aircraft and less frequency, with higher load factor for the same number of passengers. It is also found that airlines will be better off if some of the extra landing fees are returned to airlines as a bonus for airlines using larger aircraft, which consequently reduces airport congestion. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Chicago''s O’Hare airport is extremely congested, especially in the late afternoon and early evening. The paper uses a publicly available database to estimate the relationship between the number of flights wishing to depart and the delays they experience. This relationship is used to calculate congestion fees that provide airlines with incentives to move some flights out of the peak period and to slightly alter the scheduled departure time of other flights to avoid the rush of departures that occur on the hour. The very high fees at certain times of day point to the benefits that can be obtained from current plans to expand and reconfigure the airport to reduce delays in both good and bad weather. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]