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![]() "gatt" wrote in message ... "Ken Finney" wrote in message ... I'm not very familiar with larger FBOs, but smaller FBOs have pretty much been a disaster zone since 1947. What was that line from "The Grapes of Wrath"? "People shouldn't have to live like that." "Them aren't people, them's Okies." Just substitute "FBOs" for "Okies". Ah. So basically you're suggesting that FBO owners aren't people. Interesting forum to make such an observation. Sorry, it wasn't intended that way. There does seem to be a genetic thing; those that have the aviation gene don't seem to be very good at business. There are exceptions, but most of the people that I've met that run small FBOs do it for the love of aviation, not because they make a good living at it. That was my connection to the Okies, not that the Okies were "bad", but that the deck was stacked against them. From everything I've seen, the deck is stacked against small FBOs as well. Pretty sad, really. I honesty think if I won the lottery, I'd buy/start an FBO. But I'd only be able to keep it until the money ran out. ;^) |
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