Help Our UAL Friends

I assume your impassioned cry also extends to Enron employees, and will
extend to the Ford and GM employees if their pension/financial cause a
Chapter 11 filing. I assume you want taxpayer bailouts for all bankruptcy
filings, right, or just for the commercial airlines?

(The same airlines that argue -- correctly --- that they are subsidizing
GA).

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"Skylune" downed another beer, wet the bed
and scribbled:

I assume your impassioned cry also extends to Enron employees, and will
extend to the Ford and GM employees if their pension/financial cause a
Chapter 11 filing. I assume you want taxpayer bailouts for all bankruptcy
filings, right, or just for the commercial airlines?

(The same airlines that argue -- correctly --- that they are subsidizing
GA).

WRONG! Ga happens to use a system designed to the airlines' specs -- it
was never designed for GA in the first place.

GA does not need Class B/C airspace (nor even a lot of Class D, for that
matter). We don't need 8 ft thick, 10,000 ft long runways; we don't
need baggage handling equipment; we don't need the security arrangements
that airlines require.

Once again, "Skyloser" strikes out!

"Skylune" wrote in message
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(The same airlines that argue -- correctly --- that they are subsidizing
GA).


Please explain how airlines subsidize GA.

(The same airlines that argue -- correctly --- that they are subsidizing
GA).


Huh??? If that's true, lets reduce some costs NOW. First, get rid of
class A airspace. We don't need that, just make it class E all the way
up; two controllers for the entire U.S. should cover it. Get rid of
class B and class C airports. Close some and make others class D
(getting rid of a dozen approach controllers each). Next, shorten all
runways to 6,000 feet or less and sell off the extra land. Reduce the
number of parking spots (land cost) of all airports to no more than 100
spaces and sell off land. Gee, we can take most of the cost out and we
won't even feel it!! You can pretty much fire all clearance delivery
and ground controllers as well. We could get along just fine without
them too we don't have enough IFR traffic that we couldn't just use
tower to issue clearances.

-Robert

Robert M. Gary wrote:

Gee, we can take most of the cost out and we
won't even feel it!!

And you haven't even considered maintenance. By the time one of those 8' thick
runways needs resurfacing, we'll probably have anti-gravity systems and won't
need 'em. Hey, some of the old WW II bases are still in good shape after serving
all this time as GA fields.

George Patterson
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