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Oct. 7, 2008
An Idea That Won't Get Off the Ground
The moral of the city's failed efforts to build an airport in Palmdale: If you can’t build it, they won’t come, no matter how much of the taxpayers’ money you waste in the process, writes Gideon Kanner.
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By Gideon Kanner With rhythmic regularity of the tides, the Los Angeles Times has again brought us the familiar dispatch that a plucky airline - this time United Airlines - that had given it a shot, has thrown in the towel and suspended operations at the - ta-da! - Los Angeles Intercontinental Airport in Palmdale, thus joining SkyWest, America West and god knows how many other smaller airlines that at one time or another during the pa...
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