Iowa City Airport in the News

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
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Go to http://registry.faa.gov/arquery.asp and search for the names
WAL-MART and WALMART. I heard of a case where an employee complained
of harrassment and WM had an investigation team from headquarters in
the store before the day was over. Sam Walton puttered around from
store to store in the early days in a Tri-Pacer.
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Gene Seibel
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Because I fly, I envy no one.


Yep there are countries whose Air Forces have fewer planes than Wal-Mart.

Gig 601XL Builder wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote:

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
Go to http://registry.faa.gov/arquery.asp and search for the names
WAL-MART and WALMART. I heard of a case where an employee complained
of harrassment and WM had an investigation team from headquarters in
the store before the day was over. Sam Walton puttered around from
store to store in the early days in a Tri-Pacer.

Yep there are countries whose Air Forces have fewer planes than Wal-Mart.

(*spit take*)

And BTW, there are few countries with larger navies than Disney.
You can win big money in trivia contests with this fact.

"John E. Carty" wrote in message
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"john smith" wrote in message
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John Galban wrote:
Good job Jay! I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but they will be a much
better airport neighbor than a housing development (a problem we have
at my airport). The fact that Wal-Mart also has the $$'s to allow the
airport to bail itself out is also handy.

And, they will be frequent user of the airport.

How do you figure Wal-Mart will be a frequent user of the airport???

Sam Walton used to fly all over the place in his TriPacer.

Highflyer
Highflight Aviation Services
Pinckneyville Airport ( PJY )

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"john smith" wrote in message
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John Galban wrote:
Good job Jay! I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but they will be a much
better airport neighbor than a housing development (a problem we have
at my airport). The fact that Wal-Mart also has the $$'s to allow the
airport to bail itself out is also handy.

And, they will be frequent user of the airport.

How do you figure Wal-Mart will be a frequent user of the airport???

Sam Walton used to fly all over the place in his TriPacer.


Nice plane the Tripacer

cb

"Highflyer" wrote in message
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"John E. Carty" wrote in message
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"john smith" wrote in message
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John Galban wrote:
Good job Jay! I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but they will be a much
better airport neighbor than a housing development (a problem we have
at my airport). The fact that Wal-Mart also has the $$'s to allow
the
airport to bail itself out is also handy.

And, they will be frequent user of the airport.

How do you figure Wal-Mart will be a frequent user of the airport???

Sam Walton used to fly all over the place in his TriPacer.

Later he had a twin Cessna, a 340 I believe.

It's good in the short term but I don't think the long term prognosis for
the IC airport is any better and in fact now may be worse. In the past 10
years the airport has slowly been surrounded by Menards, Staples, Cub Foods,
Wal-Mart, Toyota and now Super Wal-Mart. A new road has been built
circumnavigating the airport (permanently closing a runway) and business
along side it are soon to follow. With each new business the property will
values creep ever higher and the logical end to this, it seems to me, is a
developer will eventually go in front of city council and offer big $$ to
convert the airport to insert large property tax paying corp here. It'll
probably take another 10 years, but my guess is IOW is slowly sinking to its
inevitable demise.

Just my $.02

-Brian
Iowa City, IA

"John Galban" wrote in message
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I read an article in the GA News last night about the Iowa City
airport. Seems the airport struck a deal with Wal-Mart. They sold 22
acres of airport land to Wal-Mart for a Supercenter. The sale
apparently pays off the airport's massive debt and allows airport
revenue to now go towards airport improvements.

Local business owner and member of "Friends of the Iowa City
Airport", Jay Honeck was heavily quoted throughout the article.

Good job Jay! I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but they will be a much
better airport neighbor than a housing development (a problem we have
at my airport). The fact that Wal-Mart also has the $$'s to allow the
airport to bail itself out is also handy.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

John Galban wrote:

I read an article in the GA News last night about the Iowa City
airport. Seems the airport struck a deal with Wal-Mart. They sold 22
acres of airport land to Wal-Mart for a Supercenter. The sale
apparently pays off the airport's massive debt and allows airport
revenue to now go towards airport improvements.

Local business owner and member of "Friends of the Iowa City
Airport", Jay Honeck was heavily quoted throughout the article.

Good job Jay! I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but they will be a much
better airport neighbor than a housing development (a problem we have
at my airport). The fact that Wal-Mart also has the $$'s to allow the
airport to bail itself out is also handy.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)



Just be careful with the FOD that is generated by the store. Around our
Wal-Mart (and other stores that use them) are plastic sacks. Really
makes the area look bad. I do not understand how they get all over the
place.

I've seen suggestions that when an item has 'too much packaging' you should
remove the packaging in the parking lot and leave it there to 'send a
message' to the store.


"Ross Richardson" wrote in message
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John Galban wrote:

I read an article in the GA News last night about the Iowa City
airport. Seems the airport struck a deal with Wal-Mart. They sold 22
acres of airport land to Wal-Mart for a Supercenter. The sale
apparently pays off the airport's massive debt and allows airport
revenue to now go towards airport improvements.

Local business owner and member of "Friends of the Iowa City
Airport", Jay Honeck was heavily quoted throughout the article.

Good job Jay! I'm not a fan of Wal-Mart, but they will be a much
better airport neighbor than a housing development (a problem we have
at my airport). The fact that Wal-Mart also has the $$'s to allow the
airport to bail itself out is also handy.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)



Just be careful with the FOD that is generated by the store. Around our
Wal-Mart (and other stores that use them) are plastic sacks. Really
makes the area look bad. I do not understand how they get all over the
place.

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:JLd5e.55$ff4.33@trndny08...
I've seen suggestions that when an item has 'too much packaging' you
should
remove the packaging in the parking lot and leave it there to 'send a
message' to the store.

Why?

Can the retailer control how the manufacturer decides to package his
product? I would suggest if you feel this to be a problem, that you
contact the manufacturer and not leave mounds of litter for someone else.
Throwing items on the parking lot only leaves the 'message' that _you_ are
a slob who has no regard for anyone else!

Of course, you probably know that much of what you might consider to be
'too much packaging' is designed to help the product survive transportation
in large sea-going cargo containers, or is a result of attempts by the
manufacturer to provide a more "shop lifter unfriendly" product.

GWK

"videoguy" wrote in message
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"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:JLd5e.55$ff4.33@trndny08...
I've seen suggestions that when an item has 'too much packaging' you
should
remove the packaging in the parking lot and leave it there to 'send a
message' to the store.

Why?

Can the retailer control how the manufacturer decides to package his
product?

They most certainly can.

I would suggest if you feel this to be a problem, that you
contact the manufacturer and not leave mounds of litter for someone else.
Throwing items on the parking lot only leaves the 'message' that _you_
are
a slob who has no regard for anyone else!

Of course, you probably know that much of what you might consider to be
'too much packaging' is designed to help the product survive
transportation
in large sea-going cargo containers, or is a result of attempts by the
manufacturer to provide a more "shop lifter unfriendly" product.

And just as often it is simply advertising that just adds cost to the
product.


GWK