27 May 2005
Republicans enter airline business
JetRed to take off next month
WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Committee (NRC) announced today
that for the first time in its history, it would fund and operate a
commercial business. If this weren't surprise enough to politicos as
well as to others on the street, the business that the NRC has chosen to
enter is the airline business, an industry that is under severe economic
pressure with no relief in sight.
 This venture, however, appears to be motivated less by economics (the
party's coffers are brimming) than by pure politics. In announcing the
move, NRC Chairman Ken Mehlman said, "It has not gone unnoticed by us
that a certain airline—one of the few airlines that is making money and
growing its business—is extremely popular with registered democrats. It
even calls itself JetBlue. It flies between coastal, democratic
stronghold states with hardly a thought of adding service to middle
America. Well, by golly, we plan to correct this oversight by providing
commercial air service for our citizens who form the backbone of this
great country."
"With
the launch of our airline," Mehlman announced, "which we call JetRed to
capitalize on the great traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy
Roosevelt, we will bring much needed air transportation to the heartland
of the country where faith and family values are still held dear, where
hard-working people put in an honest day's work and where school
children still say the Pledge of Allegiance every morning. While our
competitor is flying between the swinging states of New York and
California, we will be serving the swing states of Ohio, Florida and New
Mexico."
JetRed, based in Topeka, Kan., has leased 16 Boeing 737s, and beginning
next month will operate regularly scheduled passenger service between
Dayton and Daytona Beach. Service between Ft. Myers and Albuquerque and
between Albuquerque and Cleveland will be added soon thereafter. The
carrier plans stops at an additional 17 midwestern airports by the end
of the year.
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