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Gov’t pays for empty flights to rural airports
By KEVIN BEGOS and ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press
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On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it.
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Typical Gooferment!
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