Jason,
At only 1hr 20 from push to takeoff you did pretty well unfortunately.
Can they do much about it? Not really. The amount of traffic at JFK is huge. The traffic at La Guardia and Newark not much lower.
The airport is space constrained (majorly so) with the 747 barely fitting into tiny alleyways.
Yet, just a few years ago, the airport operators allowed another carrier (low cost) to set up home base there... something I thought was incredibly stupid at the time, and still do.
Can they do much? Short of restricting flights, no.
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