On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:20:12 GMT, "William Black"
wrote in
:

It's a strategy that requires lots of rich people who want to fly short
distances.

The Boeing 707 killed that idea. People wanted big cheap aircraft that took
them quickly to somewhere within about five hundred miles of where they were
going, after that they can use local transport, flying or not...

NASA's and FAA's vision of the future for air travel, Small
Aviation Transportation System (SATS), is based on small airport
infrastructure as an alternative to short-range automotive trips
for both private and business transportation needs.

That's why Robert Poole's duplicitous assertion about it being
inappropriate for FAA to fund improvements at smaller, non airline,
airports is a deliberate, sensationalized, sound-bite attempt to
mislead the lay public. That arrogant, propaganda spewing, jerk needs
to be exposed for the fraud he and his Reason Foundation are.
http://www.reason.org/airtraffic/


http://www.reason.org/poole.shtml
Poole was among the first to propose the commercialization of the U.S.
air traffic control system, and his work in this field has helped
shape proposals for a U.S. air traffic control corporation. A version
of his corporation concept was implemented in Canada in 1996 and was
more recently endorsed by several former top FAA administrators.

Poole's studies also launched a national debate on airport
privatization in the United States. He advised both the FAA and local
officials during the 1989-90 controversy over the proposed
privatization of Albany (NY) Airport. His policy research on this
issue helped inspire Congress' 1996 enactment of the Airport
Privatization Pilot Program and the privatization of Indianapolis'
airport management under Mayor Steve Goldsmith.