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Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Thu Apr 03, 2003 10:50 pm
by denishc
 Latest news is that the Baghdad International Airport is under new management, the U.S. ARMY!!  Its reported they'll protect it from Mayor Daly (to prevent him from plowing up the runways!).
 The new owners will have the airport up and running ASAP to bring in aide and supplies to the people of Baghdad.  

Re: Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 12:03 am
by Blade
US Army? I thought it was 12,000 of our good ole USMC  ;D

Re: Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 7:47 am
by ozzy72
Apparently its the 3rd Division, not the USMC.
I heard tell that if the runways got cratered with mortar fire they were going to rename it the "Mayor Daley International".

Ozzy

PS. This is aviation news, sort of, not pure war stuff, so no turning this into a flamewar please.

PPS. If anyone has any really good jokes about a certain resident of Chicago, could they please post them too me. Thanks ;)

Re: Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:46 am
by BFMF
I looked in FS2002 and there is no Baghdad international airport, although there is a saddam international airport. I'm confused :-[

Re: Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 3:26 am
by ozzy72
No worries Andrew, many years ago it was Baghdad International, and now it is again, but in the intervening period it got renamed by you-know-who, after himself, like most dictators they have egos the size of battlecruisers, and everything is named after them!

Ozzy

Re: Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:16 am
by BFMF
sounds like a certain person in chicago ;D

Re: Airport under new management!!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:58 pm
by ozzy72
The main difference is that a US aircraft managed to land at Badhdad International today!!!

Ozzy ;D