(CNN) -- Percy von Lipinski figures he flies about 100,000 miles a year. He knows he's going to see a healthy share of flight delays regardless of where he goes. A new study says delays will continue to frustrate fliers like this man at Washington's Dulles International Airport. But he especially anticipates them at the larger airports, such as Chicago's O'Hare International -- "You can't possibly put that many planes there and not have a delay," he said -- and New York's John F. Kennedy International. So when he has a choice between two connecting cities, he said he'll generally choose the smaller one.
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Major hub cities are bottleneck for air traffic, Brookings Institution study says
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Frequent flier advises connecting through smaller cities when possible
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Aviation expert says there's plenty of room for streamlining existing system
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Study's authors advocate using high-speed rail to alleviate runway congestion
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