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624,214 minutes annually, could increase to approximately 5,775,000 minutes by the end of the planning period. Diversion from Minneapolis-St. Paul International could increase the system delay to almost 6,200,000 minutes. .Limitations in existing aircraft storage will also affect the reliever system. Currently, two airports (Airlake and Anoka County-Blaine) aze using approximately 100 percent of their available storage. By the end of the planning period„ all system relievers, with the exception of Crystal Airport, will have an unconstrained demand for aircraft storage in excess of 100 percent of their existing facilities. Storage constraints throughout the reliever system aze illustrated in Erlnbit III-3. Demand for storage in the system as a whole is expected to equal 100 percent of existing storage between 1998 and 2003. This demand is compazed to existing storage and storage expansion in the following chapters. Diversion from Minneapolis-St. Paul could add as many as 16 based aircraft to the reliever system. Table III 7 provides a summary of both operational and aircraft storage capacity at each of the seven relievers at the end of the planning period. This indicates that serious operational and/or storage constraints will continue to develop throughout the system if left unaddressed. 4. REGIONAL AIRSPACE OVERVIEW The Minneapolis terminal airspace is approximately 40 nautical miles in radius and is centered on Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. The Minneapolis-St. Paul International terminal azea is under the jurisdiction of the FAA's Minneapolis Approach Control facility located at the airport; the airspace and the terminal azea extend from the surface up to and including 10,000 feet. The airspace above 1Q000 feet is under the jurisdiction of the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center (MSP ARTCC), which is located is Farmington, Minnesota; the ARTCC is responsible for all 1FR traffic in the region. Minneapolis Approach Control provides air traffic control service to all IFR aircraft as well as advisory and separation services to all visual flight rule (VFR) traffic in the .: ~ III-ZO