Thanksgiving Airspace Plan: A Turkey?

Over at The Atlantic, James Fallows has some bad news about the Bush administration's much-hyped plan to open up military airspace to ease air traffic congestion over the Thanksgiving weekend. In Fallows' words, the idea is "preposterous," and "will not make the slightest difference in airline delays or the general neuralgia of Thanksgiving travel." Not only is there little military airspace near places that experience the most congestion, it's already routinely opened to civilian traffic over the holidays.