The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by psa188@xxxxxxxxx /--------- E-mail Sponsored by Fox Searchlight ------------\ THE CLEARING - IN THEATERS JULY 2 - WATCH THE TRAILER NOW An official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, THE CLEARING stars ROBERT REDFORD and HELEN MIRREN as Wayne and Eileen Hayes - a husband and wife living the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (WILLEM DAFOE), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Watch the trailer at: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theclearing/index_nyt.html \----------------------------------------------------------/ U.S. Orders Further Cuts in Air Traffic at O'Hare April 22, 2004 By MATTHEW L. WALD WASHINGTON, April 21 - Despite an order by the Federal Aviation Administration to reduce traffic at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, delays became worse there in March. As a result, the agency will order deeper cuts, the transportation secretary announced on Wednesday. The F.A.A. expects a return of air traffic to levels before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and is trying to avoid a return to the kind of congestion that produced. In January, it said it had won agreement from the two biggest carriers at O'Hare, United Airlines and American Airlines, to reduce flights 5 percent from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. But on Wednesday, the transportation secretary, Norman Y. Mineta, said the two airlines would cut flights by 2.5 percent more during that period and reduce flights from noon to 1 p.m. as well. "With the summer storm season approaching and airline travel on the rise," Mr. Mineta said, "we can only conclude that more must be done just to stay ahead of the curve." O'Hare is responsible for 40 percent of delays across the country, according to federal officials. Mr. Mineta said that on-time performance at O'Hare had declined in March compared with that in February and in the month a year earlier, though the cause was mostly weather-related. Without the 5 percent reductions, he said, the performance in March would have been even worse. Marion Blakey, the F.A.A. administrator, said total minutes of delay at O'Hare more than doubled in March from a year earlier. A senior vice president of American Airlines, Robert W. Reding, said in a statement that American was committed to "responsible scheduling." United also said it supported the changes. The restrictions take effect June 10 and will continue until the end of October, when the thunderstorm season officially ends. More restrictions seem possible because progress toward expanding the system has been uneven. In 2001, the F.A.A. outlined a plan to increase capacity 30 percent over 10 years. But with the Bush administration under pressure to hold down spending, the Transportation Department has proposed cutting some programs intended to accomplish that. Still, the government is becoming more ambitious; before the programs were cut, Mr. Mineta said the goal should be to triple capacity of the airspace system in the next 15 to 20 years. The city of Chicago, which owns O'Hare, is planning a $14 billion expansion, but that faces opposition. A group of public and private officials are trying to increase capacity in Chicago with a competing proposal, an airport in the southern suburbs. On Wednesday, Steven A. Steckler, president of the Infrastructure Management Group, a private partner in the effort to build a new airport, said "to the extent that O'Hare is overcrowded or too expensive or options for expanding it are unaffordable by airlines, that excess can be fully absorbed by a south suburban airport." The group, led by Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., is proposing a privately financed airport, with a 10,000-foot runway and a five-gate terminal, to be named for Abraham Lincoln and to be in operation by 2009, the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. But Mr. Mineta said he was reserving judgment until officials in Illinois reached a consensus. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/business/22air.html?ex=1083640650&ei=1&en=c032121f87540b7f --------------------------------- Get Home Delivery of The New York Times Newspaper. Imagine reading The New York Times any time & anywhere you like! Leisurely catch up on events & expand your horizons. Enjoy now for 50% off Home Delivery! Click here: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/SubscriptionT1.do?mode=SubscriptionT1&ExternalMediaCode=W24AF HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact onlinesales@xxxxxxxxxxx or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@xxxxxxxxxxxx Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company