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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:W%RTa.135228$ye4.95557@sccrnsc01...
local, or incoming business would use the airport more. As I understand it, without PS Air, even the charters are very limited. Actually, by my uneducated guess (I only know what I can see on the ramp), it seems that Jet Air has generated MORE charter business. But that's really hard for me to gauge. The only reason that it may seem that way is that it is about the only traffic there now (besides a little GA stuff. IT may be, if iowa City would pull it's head out of their ass's, the new convention center slated to be in Coralville could help your cause. Augh! Don't even get me started on THAT boondoggle. I can't believe that Coralville is following Iowa City's absurd lead by using taxpayer money to fund another hotel in the area! Actually, it is not really the hotel that is the main item behind the funding, but the attached convention facility. The hotel is clinging onto the shirt tail of the convention center. I do not think that they will have any aviation suites Dammit, if there was a real need for another hotel in the area, doncha think that Sheraton/Holiday/Ramada/Embassy/Super/Motel 6 would be standing in line to build it? I still think that, as a government, they owe it to the taxpayers to look at the return on investment. This return can come in many forms, not always by the dollar. The challenge is that I do not believe that IOW, along with a ton of others its size (sitting on pricy land), can justify its ROI. As a taxpayer that pays a TON of tax, I would like to see better use of the money myself. Which, in your mind, would be better....run IOW in the red, or, close it, increase the tax base, and turn it black and add a bunch of jobs? Hell, we have State Troopers that at times have to double up in thier cars just because the funds are not there for fuel. Go figure. I fly, I like airports, and I like you, but, I would like to keep more of MY money in MY pocket (some posters talk about Fed money like it is not actually ours) Jeff |
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