NEW YORK, NY November 20, 2007 —Some $1.7 million people are expected to board airplanes in the New York area for this holiday and the problem of potential flight delays is topping the federal government's agenda. President Bush has weighed in with an order to use military airspace along the East Coast to create a "Thanksgiving Express Lane" for commercial jets.

WNYC's Richard Hake spoke with Captain Terry McVenes who's been flying for the past 29 years in and out of the New York area. He's also the Executive Air Safety Chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association. We asked him whether that new special military flight route would have any kind of impact.