The liberal newsmedia has played us for decades but people like sheep are falling for this story. Yes it is bad but not as bad as the media is making it. Obama has C-17 loaded with Haitians flying to Florida. He conned the US public again.
See any damage in those pictures? Any down buildings? I don’t. Keep drinking the Kool Aide troll.
I've come to believe that you have an agenda here which is to intentionally make FR look as bad as its detractors want to believe it is.
I can think of only one other reason for your paricularly small-minded constant yammering....you are a particularly small minded person.
1) The single runway is small and unable to carry the load of the larger military/commercial aircraft.
2) The control tower is damaged and unusable.
3) The airport is not equipped to handle large quantities of cargo (fork lifts, k-loaders, etc).
4) Power is currently being provided by generators, the island power grid has been damaged.
5) The island only handled enough fuel for it's population, not for several hundred generators (which were brought in to help).
6) Most of the workers at the airport are trying to take care of their families.
7) Look at the size of the ramp, you park more than 2 C-17s there and you can't turn around.
8) Get your head out of your tush and this of this logistically. Before an aircraft can land, there has to be a place for it to park.
9) Yes, it is as bad (or worse in some areas) as the media is making it.
This was relayed to me by one of my former Airmen, who just got back after setting up initial SATCOM communications so they could coordinate the airflow.
- Traveler