Study: Less-traveled airports may be crowded soon

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WASHINGTON – More than three dozen U.S. commercial airports will be unable to handle their air traffic by 2020 unless they are expanded, the Federal Aviation Administration says.

The FAA studied population growth, travel and income trends to determine airports' future needs. At least 43 airports will need to add capacity – some more than once – in the next 15 years.

Some will need it even sooner, the agency found. San Antonio, Texas; Palm Beach, Fla., and Tucson, Ariz., are among the cities that will reach maximum capacity by 2013, when the number of air travelers is projected to have grown by about 50 percent, to 982 million.

Expanding airports isn't easy, especially in cities where they are located near dense neighborhoods.

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