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TMA is Traffic Management Authority, I think. The 'A' is open to opinion.

They set flow rates thru 'gates'. My westbound flights into LAX start getting 'sequenced' (speed or route) mid-Colorado. Sometimes my east coast departure will be held on the ground awaiting a 'window' in the arrival pattern at LAX 5 hours from now.

Like I said, the 'A' is open to opinion.

I bought property on Nevada Highway 161 west of Jean. A large table-top mountain that has a view of the lights of Vegas. 7 years ago, the VNAV procedures were implemented into McCarren. If you could see them in 3D, it is an interlaced speed and altitude set of 'ribbons', flight paths that include altitude changes at fixed points, that allows an increased rate of arrivals and departures without intervention from the approach/departure controllers. They clear planes onto the ribbon, and then the planes have approval to fly the 3D path in and out. As long as the plane does what it is supposed to, the controllers only have to monitor. It actually does work well. There were some 'tweaks' because of aircraft performance issues, but I have not seen a revision lately. The new routes go right overhead my property inbound to LAS from LAX.