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News
It Takes a Community to Maintain an Airport
(4/16/2007) - When the City of Chicago’s Department of Aviation destroyed Meigs Field in the middle of the night a few years ago, it transformed KCGX into a poster child for the failure of both pro and anti-airport groups to work together successfully. With the future of AIP funding of general aviation / reliever airports in serious jeopardy in the United States at the hands of the FAA, the White House and the Air Transport Association, stories about airport failure and success seem pretty important.
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Perfect Storm Brewing for Pilots, Airline Employees, and Passengers
(4/11/2007) - Air Line Pilots Association President John Prater recently painted a bleak picture of airline travel for the upcoming tourist season, “This summer is going to be brutal,” he told Air Transport World Online. Prater believes this summer will be a mess because of airliners are running too full with little or no backup and skies overloaded with too many airplanes of all categories being watched by overworked air traffic controllers.
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