Mike: I agree with you on Mirabel's history and the factors that caused it to fall short of its planned dominance in the Canadia, but the since its conception, the economy has flip-flopped dozens of times. Had it really taken off, and businesses located in the Mirabel area, the airport might have been something. I remember your much talked about GST and the Meech Lake thing. Those moves together really screwed the Montreal area economy and helped Toronto Pearson become what it is now: Canada's dominant airport. BTW, who got the big contracts to build Mirabel: the French or the English side of things in Canada? I understand Canada capitulated a great deal to the French on the power plant issue and a few other things that probably in the long run, tanked the economy in favor of the English side and like our Richard Nixon did to us here in Massachusetts in the 70's, he never forget that we didn't vote for him and made sure government contracts went elsewhere. (Closed our Quincy Shipyard boat building facilities) So, politics is to blame, but later politics should have boosted this economy to have ripple affects to make Mirabel more than a corpse. IMHO Mike Burris Cambridge, Mass --- Mike Gammon <jmgammon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Je vous en prie. > > Incidentally on one Sunday in December, a bunch of > flying buddies and myself > took our planes on an outing to Mirabel. There were > some juicy tidbits > there, including a Cuban IL18 on cargo. But for the > most part it was > Transat, Transat, Transat. There were 16 of us in 8 > planes: 4 Cherokees > (one of which was mine), a 172, a couple of 150s, > and a Lake LA4. > > It's a sad thought when you realize that a major > international airport, of a > major N. American city, saw most of its departures > that day being > single-engine GA aircraft on a Sunday outing...the > cool thing was that they > fired up a PTV to bring us back to our aircraft. > Your Tax Dollars At Work! > > Mike Gammon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> > To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 8:14 PM > Subject: Re: YMX > > > > Merci Beaucoup. > >