Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Plane Route Changes
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A federal court rejected Friday a lawsuit challenging a plan to modernize jet routes in the country's most congested airspace.
The ruling is crucial to the Federal Aviation Administration's plan to alter the paths airplanes take around major airports in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia.
The changes are meant to help reduce flight delays throughout the northeast.
Residents in several states have complained the new routes will expose them to more aircraft noise and asked the court to block the plan.
They now plan to appeal.