A Poll About Air Traffic

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I know matters are not this simple. Clearly it's not simply a question of either/or... but, as a sort of thought experiment, I'm curious how people here would feel about the following:

A few years ago Handscom Airforce Base in Concord started opening up to commercial traffic. There was a huge push-back, both from the residents of Concord, but also from those whose interest was in the Walden Pond State Reservation, and the Minuteman National Historical Park and Wildlife Refuge. But there are commercial flights out of there now, with increased road traffic to and from the airport, etc. Periodically their license to run commercial flights, and how many, will come up for review.

*If* it was a simple matter of this or that, which would you prefer?
(Radio Buttons, because, while yes, "it depends" and "neither" (or "both") are all valid points, for the purposes of a straight opinion poll, we'll push it to an either/or anyway.)

[Poll #1499801]

Comments

[kpht.livejournal.com]

They do not have many commercial flights from Hanscom. Very, very few. They are mostly private flights from smaller and corporate jets. I don't know the numbers but just keep in mind that it's not a very valid alternative to Logan and I don't think it will ever be.

[lizzielizzie.livejournal.com]

This.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

The only airline serving Hanscom Field (which is separate from Hanscom Air Force Base) is Linear Air, which primarily does charters. The only scheduled flights a summer-only service to Nantucket. See http://linearair.com .

[ron_newman]

I bet their competitor Nonlinear Air is a lot more fun to ride.

[emcicle.livejournal.com]

bwahahahahaha

[infinitemorning.livejournal.com]

You should try Noneuclidean Air sometime.