The Effective Ways to Reduce Flight Delays in U.S. and Their Revelation to China

Flight delay is a hard problem in the industry of civil aviation all over the world,and also one of the main aspects which are not satisfied with the service of airlines. Various measures have been taken by all states which have the problem of flight delay problem,the civil aviation sector in U.S. has taken capacity enhancement and demand management mainly to this aspect,and has a good effect in some areas. Demand management is especially effective,which is not only reduce average delay time but also reduce the rates to flight delay as fights caps. There are some measures to solve this problem in China,but have little effect. Firstly ,this paper has analyzed the status of flight delays,problems and measures has been taken in China,followed by the introduction of the U.S. flight delays treatment methods and measures,and finally some recommendations are given on fundamental solution to the problem of the high rate of our flight delay :firstly,we should strengthen infrastructure construction to increase the capacity to respond to the higher absolute amount of the rate to flight delays; secondly is market -based instruments,the implementation of demand management,from the relative volume of the optimal allocation of resources and thus reduce flight delays. Finally,we should improve the existing governance mechanisms of flight delays further.