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FAA to ask international airlines to help ease O'Hare traffic.

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International airlines may be asked by the US government to help ease congestion at Chicago's O'Hare airport in the summer of 2005 by adjusting their schedules.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has already

held talks with domestic airlines over cuts which have now been put into place voluntarily. Even though foreign airlines are only responsible for a fraction of the 3,000 daily arrivals at the airport they do hold timeslots at the busiest periods.

O'Hare has been recording more delays than any other airport so far in 2004 and the FAA is now asking foreign airlines to submit their summer schedules for review. Although cuts have not been mentioned the FAA could ask the airlines to move certain flights to less busy times. The International Air Transport Association said that minimal changes in schedules should not cause any problems but a broader change could affect overseas connections and require a bigger review, reports Reuters.

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