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#485........................................................................June
15, 2008 Past newsletters can be accessed at:
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of the Week: "The residents living in the area surrounding Van Nuys
Air****t need the same protection from the noise of nighttime takeoffs and
landings as residents living near Bob Hope Air****t" from a news story this
week about a curfew at Bob Hope Air****t and fears of other air****t
communities that they will get Bob Hope Air****t's sleep disturbing night
flights if the curfew goes into effect.
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Airlines Leaving Air****ts!!!
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As Bill Sees It (Editorial): New York's Stewart Air****t Loses Another
Airline To High Fuel Prices!!! On September 3rd New York's Stewart Air****t
will say goodbye to another airline who can't make a profit. Airtran's
leaving was greatly lamented by none other than the ultimate phony
Democrat
politician (next to Sen. Chuck Schumer) Congresscreep John Hall. Hall,
like
all phony democrats, likes to ****tray himself as an environmentalist and
almost every day there is a news story about his sup****ting some "green"
project. However, he showed his real face when it came to making Stewart
Air****t (which is in his district) New York City's 4th major air****t. Hall
ignored all demands for a public forum and discussion of the environmental
and health impacts of an expanded Stewart Air****t on his constituents. Now
with Airtran pulling out he is STILL fighting to expand Stewart
Air****t...without any environmental impact studies or public hearings of
course. As a reward for Hall's loyalty to the aviation industry and
pollution, he was made Vice Chair of the House Trans****tation and
Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation. Watch all the phony environmental
groups rally behind this creep when he comes up for election again.
California Communities Battle Each Other Over Night Flight Noise!!!
Usually the FAA is happy to see communities battle each other over air****t
noise, and do everything they can to encourage this conflict. This is
because as the ultimate arbiter of flight routes the FAA bosses get to sit
back and play politics with politicians desperate to calm the fears of
their
constituents who are going ballistic over the prospect of more jets going
over their homes. The Bob Hope Air****t curfew issue seems to be different
and it is happening at a time when the FAA is getting heat from all sides.
The last thing they need is to be looked on as the bad guy in a aircraft
routing and scheduling fight between Los Angeles air****t communities. The
beautiful thing about it is that no matter what happens (unless the FAA
decides to give a curfew to all California air****ts; which is highly
unlikely), the FAA will lose!!! It couldn't happen to a nicer vicious,
corrupt, government agency.
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Bob Hope Air****t: Sharing Flight Noise A Sore Point!!! L.A. Council delays
a
vote on Burbank plan: noise that favors one neighborhood over another, the
Los Angeles City Council postponed a vote Friday on Burbank's proposed
curfew on night flights. Officials at Bob Hope Air****t in Burbank want to
prohibit flights from 10 p.m. to 6:59 a.m. to cut down on noise in nearby
neighborhoods. But residents around Van Nuys (map on the left) Air****t
have
complained that the curfew will simply ****ft some 17 noisy nighttime
arrivals and departures to their neighborhood. Lake Balboa Neighborhood
Council Secretary Steve Leffert said Burbank's plan will dump that city's
problems on another community. "The residents living in the area
surrounding
Van Nuys Air****t need the same protection from the noise of nighttime
takeoffs and landings as residents living near Bob Hope Air****t," Leffert
told the L.A. City Council on Friday. And City Councilman Bill Rosendahl,
who represents the area around LAX, decried the curfew as "city NIMBYism"
-
though he later apologized to Burbank leaders for his harsh words. But the
debate over the Burbank air****t's proposed curfew puts L.A. leaders in a
delicate position. Some 170,000 Los Angeles residents live in the Burbank
air****t flight path and could potentially benefit from the reduction in
night noise. http://origin.dailynews.com/news/ci_9581840
New York: Yet Another Airline Leaves Stewart Air****t: STEWART AIR****T -
Another discount airline is saying "buh-bye" to Stewart International
Air****t. AirTran, offering daily flights to Atlanta and three Florida
cities, confirmed Friday it will make its last flights Sept. 3. Spokesman
Tad Hutcheson said the airline made the painful decision because of high
fuel prices that are forcing cutbacks throughout the airline industry. "We
just couldn't figure out a way to make it work," Hutcheson said. "It's not
that consumers didn't want the service." That's an understatement. AirTran
arrived at Stewart on Jan. 11, 2007. AirTran and fellow discounter
JetBlue,
which arrived a month earlier, became a formidable one-two combo in
boosting
the air****t's fortunes. Combined, they accounted for about two-thirds of
the
900,000 passengers who used Stewart in 2007, tripling the volume of 2006.
With the arrival of Skybus, a third discounter, in December 2007, Stewart
was poised to hit the 1 million passenger mark this year. That estimate
was
scaled back to 850,000 when Skybus suddenly folded and applied for Chapter
11 bankruptcy protection in early April. Despite the latest blow - coming,
coincidentally, on a Friday the 13th - the ****t Authority of New York &
New
Jersey, which took over Stewart's operating lease in November, remained
optimistic about the air****t's future. "Our commitment to Stewart has not
changed," said ****t Authority spokesman Pasquale DiFulco. The agency has
committed itself to a 10-year, $500 million capital improvement plan for
Stewart. DiFulco said ****t Authorty will "remain in discussions with
AirTran" and hopes to convince the airline to return at some point. But
they'll also step up efforts to recruit another airline to fill the void,
he
said.
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Im****tant Aviation
News
Stories This Week
High-speed rail is answer to air woes!!!
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=207254&src=
AReCO was surprised to read the Daily Herald editorial board calling on
Wa****ngton to fix the airline mess (Congress must fix this airline mess,
March 28), concerned the FAA was basically on-the-take for the industry.
What was most surprising is AReCO, for about 20 years has been supplying
the
Daily Herald evidence this is standard operating procedure.
The FAA was actually formed to promote aviation.
That mandate held until AReCO was able to help convince the Clinton
Administration that an agency that mandated safety and promotion was at
best
unsafe.
While the mandate has changed to just safety, the nature of the beast
remains.
The editorial claimed, "we've all recognized since at least Sept. 11, 2001
that our airline industry is critical to our lives, our economy and our
infrastructure."
While that may be true to some extent, the only reason is because the
media,
including the Daily Herald, promoted more of the same when it backed
O'Hare
expansion.
They bought into the downtown controlled Chicago Chamber of Commerce
glossy
marketing scheme. O'Hare expansion was the kingpin to the FAA's plan.
The General Accountability Office has stated thousands of U.S. air****t
expansions are required to handle the artificial four-phased growth of
flights.
That historically massive increase, including now the 2008 economic
globalization treaties (Open Skies), will kill any chance of viable
trans****tation competition, a reduction of the problems and a real choice
for travelers.
A national world-class high-speed rail system would reduce flights
(regional) by more than 50 percent and force true competition and change
in
the air trans****t industry.
The media and the American traveling public are unfortunately ignorant,
resulting from industry's control of much of the news.
According to independent U.S. government re****ts and common logic, we need
a
world-class high-speed rail system, not more expansion of unreliable air
trans.
And the Herald's trumpeting of true western access benefit raison d'état
will, as AReCO has repeatedly warned, doubtfully ever happen.
Competition, reliability, security, no dependence on foreign oil and a
back-up system are what high-speed rail would bring at about a third the
cost of air****t expansions, bringing 400,000 jobs to northern Illinois.
That is what we really need.
Jack Sa****ito
Executive Director
The Alliance of Residents Concerning O'Hare
Arlington Heights
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