An Amazing Day On The Internet--Part II

Just when I thought that my day couldn’t get much better, it did. My girl Pat called me after lunch and told me that I had successfully gotten the FAA to place our local airport, Brunswick Glynn County Regional (BQK), listed on the Air Traffic Control System Command Center Web Site.

Now before you say anything--yes, I admit that I have too much time on my hands and too little to worry about sometimes—but this is a big deal if you travel as often as we do here in our household. Pat jumps on an airplane to fly to Chicago almost once a week. Looking at the ATCSCC site gives you at least an idea of what kind of delays to expect when you are packing your luggage. It has saved us both some time in the past in spite of the omission of BQK.

I contacted the FAA over a year ago about the omission of our airport from their site. After all, they had two smaller airports in south Georgia—Valdosta and Albany—listed with their own green buttons on the map.

When they refused to respond or otherwise ignored my multiple requests for information, I called in the big guns. Our state senator, Saxby Chambliss, had his people get involved at my request in February and today I got a letter from his office and a copy of a letter from the FAA dated April 12th saying that they were taking care of things.

As Pat had already noted, they included us this week because it wasn’t on the site Tuesday morning when she left town.

I’m expecting her to return home this evening about midnight (flight delays due to weather) so I have to go get a late dinner ready and we'll quietly celebrate our victory.

Who says “you can’t fight city hall…”