President Bush in Omaha today

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:02 am

And avoid the highly visible motorcade parade through downtown? Silly, silly rabbit.

-Big E

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:24 am

Ben wrote:Instead of the makeshift barricades with snowplows and Werner trailers, and hundreds of cops, why not use the already secured space at Offutt?

Possibly stupid question here ... when this happens, do they cancel or hold the scheduled flights at Eppley or do they just let them go on?

Ben · Post by **Ben** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:07 pm

Omababe wrote:Possibly stupid question here ... when this happens, do they cancel or hold the scheduled flights at Eppley or do they just let them go on?

I believe that they hold flights, and have a couple of minute buffer on either side of the president's plane taking off or landing. Just a short delay for those passengers. Plus, I'd assume there's a "ground stop", keeping all other planes at their gates, not taxiing around, while Air Force Once is moving around the airfield.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:11 pm

Wasn't there - in recent past - a President who stopped all traffic at LAX while he got a haircut while his plane was on the tarmac?

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