On June 28, Southwest will begin offering three daily non-stops between New York's LaGuardia and Baltimore-Washington Airport, which is about halfway between Baltimore and DC.

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Experts estimate, for example, that state-of-the-art technology at New York's LaGuardia Airport would increase its capacity by almost 50%.

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Regional airlines fly 64% of the takeoffs and landings at Chicago's O'Hare International, 74% at Seattle-Tacoma and 52% at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

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New York's LaGuardia Airport, by contrast, has a 7, 003-feet runway.

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Last month's emergency occurred about three hours into controller Harten's eight-hour shift, but only 15 minutes after he was assigned to handle departures from New York's LaGuardia Airport.

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