On the recordJanuary 15, 2009
I just want to congratulate him and his fellow Kansans and others who brought this to our attention. And let's make one thing clear; we recently read--I did--in the New York Times about smaller communities that have lost commercial air service. To tell a business which is located in a community that has lost commercial air service that it can never charter or buy a plane is really to invite them to leave those communities. So it is not simply the airline industry that's involved here, but it is economic fairness for small communities where businesses located there would have no other option if they aren't allowed to go to private aircraft.
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