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Envy is all over garrison keillor's article complaining about express lanes for first-class passengers at airport security checkpoints [ESSAY, Dec. 2]. It irks him that you can get better service by paying more. But if everybody gets above-average treatment, we simply redefine the level of service. Forced equalization reduces incentives to excel. As for security searches, if Keillor wants to encourage passengers to submit meekly to them, he ought to make a convincing argument instead of waving the overused Sept. 11 flag. It's like dabbing your eyes when there are no tears. THERESA LONG Williamsburg...
...Weary of airport hassles and delays--not to mention time-wasting traffic jams--many executives like King are taking the throttle in their hands and learning to fly themselves from appointment to appointment. Student starts are at their highest level since 1993, says Phil Boyer, 61, president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reports that the number of new student pilots flying single-engine planes rose 6% this year through Nov. 2, compared with the same period last year, to a total of 58,747. While no one tracks the number of executives...
...join their ranks. The owner of Advantage Payroll Services in Hicksville, N.Y., Basso has dreamed of piloting a plane ever since he was a kid. At a trade show last spring, he picked up an Air East Airways brochure advertising pilot lessons out of its hangar at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, just 15 minutes from his home. Since April, he's been taking flight lessons once or twice a week--early in the morning or in the late afternoon. He attends a 2 1/2-hour session on the ground and puts in about 10 hours a week at home studying manuals...
...about 40 miles east of Manhattan, King has to visit customers scattered all around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. But one day last spring, as he was spending all morning driving to Oxford, Conn., it suddenly occurred to him that if he had flown from a municipal airport near his business, he would have reached his destination in half an hour...
...CONVICTED. YIN QINGQIANG, 38, former Cornell University researcher; of stealing university biological materials worth more than $5,000 and trying to smuggle them to China, and of lying to the fbi; in Syracuse, New York. Airport security officials found more than 250 test tubes and petri dishes containing ingredients to improve livestock nutrition concealed in his luggage. Yin faces a maximum 15 years in jail and a $500,000 fine...