Originally Posted by francophile
October 30, 2004
But the Transportation Department, which has paid $3.5 million to the Interior Department to keep the airfield open for the last few months, is determined to stop. "There is no other airport available to commercial interests that we pay to operate," said Brian Turmail, a Transportation Department spokesman.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/po...30airport.html
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Thanks for this info. It will be very comforting when the airlines start wanting to use 757's to fly to Asia.
But, doesn't the Transportation Dept. pay out zillions for ATC, Weather, TSA, etc. at every airport "available to commercial interests"? I was just wondering what the difference was and as a trans-Pacific flier, a tad concerned.
Finally, if a passenger did get sick, is there serious medical help available on Midway? Or the extreme end of the Aleutians, or the east coast of Russia? Damn, something else to worry about.