Dear President Obama

[malaise]

Please shut down all those small airports that the 1% use for their private jets.
Sequester them first

[Laurian]

1. Yes. Start with Paul Ryan's little airport

in Janesville, Wisconsin. Make life a little bit inconvenient for that little shit.

[malaise]

2. That would be most excellent

[kimbutgar]

10. Ryan's airport is on the list

Here is the list:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2013/02/22/travel-delays/1938959/

Quite a few are private airports in

Kansas are affected which is a dig at the koch's.

I live in California and the one's closing are in republican leaning area's.

Very sweet poetic justice.

[malaise]

13. Fairness

I'm lovin' it

[davidpdx]

3. Also remember that some of those regional airports have commercial flights

I have no problem closing ones that only are used for private planes. The last two times I've flown into the US I have had to go to a regional airport because I have a parent who lives in a smaller part of the state. Both of the airports are small (about an hour apart) and I fly into whichever is cheapest and has seats available. We flew into the one an hour away last time because we were able to get seats for $129 each (that's one way, we traveled up to a larger city for the rest of our trip and flew out there for a much cheaper price). When I fly round trip to the closer airport and am not able to book a flight early it is crazy expensive (like $350 round trip) for a flight that is about an hour.

[marmar]

4. There would be an Armani Suit March on Washington......

Can't you hear the protest chants?: "THIS IS WHAT PLUTOCRACY LOOKS LIKE !!!"

[malaise]

6. DUzy

Expect some Brooks brothers as well Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

[Boom Sound 416]

5. I can only imagine

And maybe I'm taking this too literally, but all I can think about is the many unintended consequences of this idea. Starting with the fact if they buy them, they will fly them had eventually will have to land them and if there's no little airport then I'll be sitting in a cramped seat on a taxi-way that much longer with 300 other people so eight people can land or take off ahead of me.


However, conceptually I'm with you. Of all the FAA furloughs they are talking about at JFK, no one is talking about Teterboro.

[CrispyQ]

7. Oh malaise, you just don't understand the concept of austerity.

It's for the little people, not the little airports that support the 1%.

I'm so gd disgusted with this whole fucking country.

[malaise]

11. I understand alright

My wages have been frozen for so long I think we live in the Artic

[CrispyQ]

17. I keep saying I'm not going to vote for the lesser of two evils anymore, but I do anyway,

and you know what? The shit sandwich the dems are serving us, still tastes like a shit sandwich. I'm not saying there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, but it should be a dollar's worth of difference, not a fucking dime! I remember reading that Ken Salazar voted democratic about 25% of the time. Which means he voted republican 75% of the time. And yet we are told that he is the best type of dem we can get in some areas. I don't believe it. Too often our own party works against good candidates, in support of corporate candidates.

The whole electoral process is so corrupt & compromised, I don't know how we get it back. The ones who can change it are the ones who benefit by keeping it the same.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Send an article in to the media

however the media would deny that there are such airports

[malaise]

20. We had some serious posts about those airports

a while back

[MineralMan]

9. An interesting idea.

I live under the take off and approach flight path for the St. Paul Downtown Airport, which is only a few miles from MSP airport, our big commercial airport. It's much used by corporate jets, which fly over my house frequently every day.

The only issue here would be that those corporate jets would simply fly into MSP, increasing the traffic in that airport and complicating everyone's lives considerably, including those who fly on scheduled airlines for many reasons. I'm not sure there would be a lot of cost savings, either, since traffic in and out of the St. Paul Downtown Airport is handled by the same folks who control traffic at MSP.

[malaise]

12. Just watching the 1% dealing with TSA would be worth it

[MineralMan]

14. First Class Passengers? Please use this security line.

That's already in place at most large airports. The rest of us use a different line. Besides, the executive jet crowd uses the private terminal, anyhow.

[malaise]

15. You mean there are separate security lines for first class passengers

I've never seen that at Miami International

[MineralMan]

16. MSP Terminal 1 and LAX Terminal 2

have them. It depends on the airline and airport terminal. I have never been to Miami's airport.

[Stinky The Clown]

18. The landing fees at the big airports are huge compared to the landing fees at the . . . .

. . . . .affected smaller ones. They are intentionally prohibitive so as to limit the traffic of small planes, each of which uses just as much airpsace and controller time as does a big jet.

I hope they raise landing fees even higher on small non-based places/carriers.

Fukum. Let them take the Grayhound. Or their Motorcoach.

[malaise]

19. Agreed

Make them pay