:45:00
Oh, Mel.
:45:01
There's your answer.
:45:03
A modern expanded airport
big and efficient enough...
:45:06
to take anything
the designers can throw at us.
:45:09
That means buying off
Meadowood...
:45:11
and rezoning it
for industrial use...
:45:12
so the noise won't make
any difference.
:45:14
l didn't come here to talk
about the future of aviation.
:45:17
Well, you better start,
:45:19
and you better start
looking ahead a few years.
:45:21
What are we going to do...
:45:22
about these jumbos
that seat 500 passengers?
:45:24
How will we get people
to and from the airport?
:45:27
Save that for the women's clubs
and the Rotary luncheons.
:45:30
We've got to be practical.
:45:32
Sure, sure, ignore it.
Don't stick your neck out.
:45:34
lt's about time that you
and the other commissioners...
:45:37
began fighting
for a bond issue...
:45:39
to finance this kind
of an airport...
:45:41
instead of running around...
:45:42
checking to see
if the toilets flush.
:45:44
l don't think insulting me is
going to solve anything,
:45:47
so let's get back
to our immediate problem.
:45:48
We've got to make a decision
about tonight!
:45:51
l've made it.
The airport's staying open.
:45:53
Mel, stop being so bullheaded.
Think of the consequences.
:45:56
Don't talk to me
about consequences.
:45:58
When Congress voted to cut
airport appropriations,
:46:01
you never even sent in
a letter of protest.
:46:03
Where were you when the airlines
and the pilots...
:46:05
and the rest of us
were pleading...
:46:07
for more airports
and better traffic control?
:46:09
You were picking out the colors
in the ladies lounge.
:46:12
So now you've got
your consequences--
:46:14
congested air traffic
where Sunday pilots hold up...
:46:17
airliners with thousands
of people aboard...
:46:19
and force us to stack up
planes bound for New York...
:46:21
as far away as Denver.
:46:23
When it comes to politics,
you're a child.
:46:25
Two of our councilmen
live in Meadowood.
:46:28
Think what they could do
to us downtown!
:46:30
l'm thinking of those pilots
upstairs waiting to land,
:46:33
flying blind in that muck...
:46:34
and circling in holding patterns
and praying to God...
:46:37
that some tired, overworked,
underpaid controller...
:46:39
in the tower...
:46:41
doesn't have another plane
on the same course.
:46:43
You can call it pigheaded.
Call it anything you want.
:46:45
As long as we're not
below F.A.A. minimums,
:46:47
we're not closing down.
:46:50
All right,
if that's the way you want it.
:46:52
l'm calling
the other commissioners,
:46:54
and l'll let you know
what our decision is...
:46:56
within an hour.
:46:57
That's your privilege.
You hired me,
:46:59
and you've got
the right to fire me,