Airlines can inexpensively reduce most delays, the excess CO2/NOX/noise and huge costs to passengers, airlines, taxpayers, governments, airports, employees, shareholders and the environment. No grandiose, hugely expensive, highly complex plan. No new technology. No more studies. No decades more waiting for ATC. R. Michael Baiada is President of ATH Group, Inc. ATH's vision is to bring the Supply Chain, Lean Six Sigma philosophy to the airline curb to curb production process to fundamentally alter the airline operating environment. The company’s goal is summed up by Professor Michael Levine of the NYU School of Law - “production engineering in the ongoing Deming era” as applied to the airline industry. ATH Group’s products include its patented and award-winning GreenLandings™ solution. GreenLandings™ is a tactical aircraft/asset/airline landing time management solution. ATH's GreenLandings™ solution has been operational for over 8 years, reducing delays, improving airline product quality and saving over $20,000 per day in fuel alone (www.athgrp.com). Using GreenLandings™, within 3 years, airlines can move to increase A0 to greater than 85% and reduce block time by an average of 8 minutes per flight.But GreenLandings™ is only the cornerstone of the complete Airline Operational Excellence Process. The ultimate Operational Excellence goal is to tactically drive all of an airline's processes to a common goal - smiling passenger at the destination curb on time, bag in hand (i.e., just in time) faster, better and more profitably (>%5 CO2 reduction, >85% A0, <3% day to day A0 Standard Deviation, >8 minute scheduled block/gate time reduction per flight).In the last 25 years, Michael Baiada has worked extensively on airline operational productivity and ATC/airspace capacity issues. In collaboration with Michael Boyd, he co-authored the three volume Free Flight analysis. Based on these studies, Michael Baiada and Michael Boyd testified at the Congressional hearing on Free Flight and ATC issues (8/94). In addition to briefing 3 FAA Administrators and providing Congressional testimony on ATC/airline issues. Baiada was the Manager of Products at Allied/Bendix Avionics Division, Assistant VP - Operations/Maintenance at Ransome Airlines and a USAF officer/pilot. Baiada has 35 years and over 20,000 hours of flying experience and holds BS degrees in Aeronautical Engineering and Business Administration from Rutgers University.Specialties: Airline Operational Solutions, Lean Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Air Traffic Control, Commercial Pilot