Last year was the worst on record for flight delays.

As a result, use of the machines could lead to long flight delays, they said.

Meanwhile, these three things we know to be true: Flight delays are up about 50 percent for the past five years.

During September, there were 9,000 flight delays at the airport, up from 3,108 in the same month a year before.

Unfortunately, flight delays do sometimes occur and these are beyond our control.

Because of the cuts, there have been significant increases in flight delays.

Flight delays at 21 primary airports amount to 20,000 hours a year.

And a flight delay, no matter how aggravating, doesn't always end up being a bad thing!

They were instituted in response to heavy pressure by Congress on the department to do something about flight delays.

The largest number concerned flight delays, which increased 25 percent in 1986 to an all-time high of 1,144 a day.