[decimon]

"Our training ranges in the United States have something like that going on, but they don't bring (civilian) airplanes into land right in the middle of your bombing run," said Pawlowski.

[Northern Yankee]

Cmdr. Bill Sigler, head of an F/A-18 fighter jet squadron on the USS Truman, estimated that planes flying off the carrier headed north over the Persian Gulf to Iraq were confined to one-fifth of the airspace available the last time he was in the region in 2002 because of increased airline traffic.

As far as I am concerned, those F-18's can go wherever they want!

How are you?

[magslinger]

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[MNJohnnie]

Thanks Sierra Club, Thanks Greenpeace. Thanks Democrats in the US Senate. Thank you for keeping us wholly dependent on foreign oil so that third world thugs can get hyper rich while our economy toys with recession!

So glad all you trust fund socialists are so busy “looking out for us little guys” /s

[saganite]

I’ve flown through that airspace frequently but not in the last year. Business must be picking up although it was busy enough back then to open another corridor from Kuwait to Turkish airspace and split the southbound traffic from the northbound. The military controllers are doing a pretty good job considering the mix of traffic and the fact they weren’t really supposed to be running a full service ATC over there. Plus they rotate out so the learning process is ongoing.

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[FreedomPoster]

>>Civilian air traffic in the Mideast doubled between 2002 and 2007, according to the International Air Transport Association.

And yet the Democrats think they can legislate the price of oil. Worldwide demand has nothing to do with high prices. < /s>