Call the bluff over our airport Dear Sir: The year was 1995 and the place was the old Riverside school in Terrace. We were writing our ground school test as the last part of our fying training, It was tough. A group of visitors entered and were in- troduced.. One-off them -was Grant ...MeConachie,-revered-head of Canadian Pa- cific Airlines. a oo I found out, years later, that he was in town to wrest the Terrace — Prince Rupert (air routes were regulated) rua away from QCA. Due to CPR and~ his personal reputation, he was successful. It’s been a major money maker ever since, “Now, -afler ‘deregulation, ‘there are two major carriers on the route, and one small cartier working -as a connector to other parts of the north.’ a The Terrace. airport sees 100,000 pas- senger movements per year. Prince Rupert sees slightly more, Smithers to Vancouver generates about: 75,000, - ~ ae Multiply 100,000 by a $373 one-way fare. Add in the freight and revenues top $40 million. For Terrace only. _ We now see Terrace council, so desperate to take’ over'a money losing (on ‘one set of books)‘ airport, they “have set loose the bogey man, = -- “Prince Rupert has a deal, and if we don’t get our wishes granted, the airlines _ Will pick one airport of the three in the northwest. and operate. only from there, picking up savings from ground costs,’ says council, . oe One gets tired of such deviations from realily, If one of the majors quit Terrace, . the other would put‘on another aircraft and - fill the void happily. Grant would even come back to celebrate. If both carriers left ‘four new ..ones would be here tomorrow. Cypress Air (Vancouver -- Prince George for $270, return compared to Canadian’s "$333 one-way) is competing head to head out of Prince George. If there was an open market of 100,000 movements accustomed to paying twice Cypress fares, they would _ be here yesterday. When was the last time ‘you saw anyone walk away from $40 mil- lion per year? - - Terrace council says the majors are losing money in the Terrace — Rupert run and are _ dying to close ‘one to save money. Monaghan, -chair of the regional district, doesn’t agree. ; It’s: almost too late but Terrace, the regional. district and the Hazeltons. should . do what this whole north should have done CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD The _ Mail Bag long ago. Call the bluff. Tell the feds to realize the airports are a national transportation struc- ture, and should remain such. No one has done that yet. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it Les Watmough, Terrace, B.C. A mystery Dear Sir: The Philip Adams theater play ‘Freeze Pojnt’’ about Michael Oros is very creative, however, the facts are cleverly cloaked un- der a blanket of mystery. Is this a way to record history and distort the happenings up to and beyond the death of Michael Oros on March 19, 19857 Cleverly deleted from news reports, the Prince George coroners’ report stated Oros’s body contained 14 bullets and was quickly cremated before his mother could view him. The BC authorities didn't find it suitable to notify her, she got the news from a news paper. The Crazy Mike Syndrome is an inyen- tion by the author of the book ‘‘Descent into Madness” of the death of a man who liked to live in a remote, but beautiful part of our vast and still uncontaminated north. In 1982, Oros defended himself success- fully here in Terrace of a one ounce marijuana possession charge. 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