Bush offering plan to ease holiday travel crunch

President George W. Bush will announce steps tomorrow that he hopes will reduce air traffic congestion and long flight delays during the upcoming holiday season.
   
The White House has signaled that the Pentagon will, like last year, open two corridors of airspace from Florida to Maine, usually used for military exercises, to create a “Thanksgiving express lane” for commercial planes.
   
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says Bush will talk about that, as well as other “new and continuing efforts” to help make holiday travel easier, in a speech tomorrow at the Transportation Department
   
The union representing air traffic controllers says last year’s efforts had little impact on traffic congestion, and this year’s steps are unlikely to provide any significant relief either.