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Desert Rats on Capitol Hill
The Palm Springs International airport received a little shout-out on capitol hill last week, as the National Ait Traffic Controllers Association and others testified before congress in a House committee hearing on airport saftey.
Unfortunately this shout-out was more like a public diss, as PSP was accused of being "riddled with problems that include buildings plagued with mold, asbestos and foot-long rats," according to a recent article in The Desert Sun.
On behalf of the rats, let me just say it's not our fault the airport is in such disrepair. Sure, The Desert Rat's brethren may have found a comfortable nesting place under some old Desert Post Weeklys in an abandoned trailer at PSP, but can you blame them? What better place to nest than at the most secure area in one of the most premier vacation destinations in the country?
Although you won't find this desert rat there anytime soon. Despite the fact that attendance numbers keep rising at PSP, hearings like this one and all the studies in the last few years (some of which have placed PSP at number two most dangerous in Cali behind LAX) have this rat spooked, and grounded for now. If you do catch The Desert Rat at a Southern California airport, it will probably be one that hasn't recieved so much attention like, say, Ontario. Of course, there was the whole terrorist plot there in season five of 24.
Damn, is there anything we can do to speed up the renovations at the San Bernadino airport?
09/24/2007 - AP: San Bernadino International flights possible next year
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