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From: "Skip Slater" <skipslater@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Preserving Freedom -  Flying and otherwise
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These TFR closures don't only affect GA- last week I was inbound to Miami in 
a 737 I was flying for American.  About ten minutes before landing, we were 
suddenly put into holding along with every other inbound airliner for 45 
minutes to allow exclusive use of the airport for the arrival of Air Force 
One.  No one was released until the plane was parked and the president had 
deplaned and headed off to his fundraiser.  Even planes on the ground, some 
within a short distance of their arrival gates, were forced to park during 
this entire evolution.  Several planes had to divert to other airports due 
to minimum fuel.

The cost to the affected airlines of this single event had to be at least 
several tens of thousands of dollars (possibly higher) and seems needless 
when Homestead AFB was available just south of Miami.  Imagine how much 
these events cost general, corporate and and commercial aviation on an 
annual basis.   I can understand the need to give Air Force One priority 
handling, but when it's parked in a secure area (as it always is) I just 
don't understand the need to stop all commercial traffic for such a large 
time window.

Skip Slater
N540ES