Airline passengers subsidizing private aviation

Larry Dighera wrote:
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/



It might be tasteless of me to make the comment but I can't help but think that
the campaign to impugn general aviation in the press just got superceded by
yesterday's tragic events in Blacksburg. I further would be willing to bet that
it will be difficult for them to get this particular train back on the track. I
can't say I was sorry (about the campaign; not Blacksburg).

I was greeted with a front page headline yesterday in the Charlotte Observer
whining about how general aviation leeches off airline passengers. Now, rather
than respond to it in the editorial pages, I think I'll just let it die a
natural death.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/122/story/87007.html



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com