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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:18:43 -0400, Orval Fairbairn
<orfairbairn@earthlink.net> wrote:

>In article <1190075103.538193.94280@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
>> On Sep 15, 8:20 pm, Hatunen <hatu...@cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > But the price for such will be discouraging.
>> 
>> Not necessarily.  It depends on the market being served, both in terms
>> of alternative travel modes and hotel/motel accomodations.  In some
>> markets hotels are relatively cheap, in others rather expensive even
>> for a basic room.
>> 
>> Many business travelers are avoiding the horrors of commercial service
>> and going to private jets.  The problem is that there's no spare
>> capacity at major airports to support these jets.  Taxpayers are not
>> gonna be too thrilled to support airports (like Teterboro in NJ which
>> is controversial) that support mostly elite business traffic.  The
>> costs of operating a private jetport aren't cheap, especially in the
>> day of high land values.  Many private airports have been turned into
>> malls and developments due to high land value.
>> 
>> The bottom line is that such private elite jet service will become
>> very expensive due to scarcity of appropriate airports.  If a business
>> person still has a two hour ground trip from the airport to origin or
>> destination or worse both, that's extra time to the journey.  (Getting
>> to Teterboro from Manhattan is murder).
>
>There is a solution:
>
>Companies can leave the large cities and establish themselves in 
>less-dense areas, where they can use small airports to get to other 
>destinations. There is really no good reason for a company to set up in 
>large urban areas.

You sem to think everyone woring for rte comapny will use the
private jets when they travel for business. They won't. Sales guy
Joe Schmo will get a coach ticket on an airline.

>Big cities are becoming obsolete, due to their success, which now makes 
>them less desirable to live in.

As Yogi Berra might have said, "No one lives in big cities;
they're too crowded."

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