Pay up Corporate....

[A Squared]

Is this what I said? I mean, you just quoted me at the top of your post, and now you're inserting another quote that says something completely different than the statement that I had made.

No, of course that is not a direct quote of what you said, sorry if that confused you. It's a paraphrasing of your comment, to illustrate the silliness of making a statement about a nationwide percentage (be it 1%, 15%, 50%, of air traffic, vehicle occupancy, or agricultural land utilization, whatever) based on a anecdotal experience limited to one location at one specific time.

I've seen the volume of corporate airplanes in places like TEB, VNY, PBI, and other airports around the country enough to know that they use more than 1% of our system.

Right. More of the same. exactly how do you calculate "more than 1%" (direct quote) ?? Show your work...................Of course you can't, and this is my point. You say you "know" (direct quote) it's more than 1%, because you "saw lots and lots of corporate planes" (that is not supposed to be a direct quote, but it's the essence of what you're saying) which is a completely non-quantitative experience. Really, you have no idea what the percentage is.

Now if you say; " well, I looked on flghtaware, and XXXX airplanes were in the air and XX were corporate aircraft" (speculative hypothetical statement, not a direct quote) , then at least you'd have a rational basis for claiming a percentage, we might discuss what time you looked, and how you determined which were corporate vs. bugsmashers, and some other details, but at least data from Flight aware would is a legitimate basis for claiming some percentage. "I saw lots of corporate jets once" (not a direct quote) is not

 

[onthebeach]

Our government and business management, working together, has managed to make a shambles of what was once the greatest airline system in the entire world.

I don't suppose anyone in either group will be satisfied until they have destroyed corporate aviation as well.

 

[SkyBoy1981]

No, of course that is not a direct quote of what you said, sorry if that confused you. It's a paraphrasing of your comment, to illustrate the silliness of making a statement about a nationwide percentage (be it 1%, 15%, 50%, of air traffic, vehicle occupancy, or agricultural land utilization, whatever) based on a anecdotal experience limited to one location at one specific time.

You're right, perhaps it was not the best comparison. I still believe that anyone who uses our NAS on a daily basis will agree that corporate aviation easily makes up more than 1%. It doesn't take a statistics major to figure that out.