I Can Fly! / myLot

Australia

May 5, 2016 8:50pm CST

We have been two years without an airline to meet the communities and businesses needs. I have just read the Local Council Newsletter and they are in negotiation with an airline and we should be right to go mid year. Oh dear, just realised that they did not stipulate which year. Oh well, we live in hope. The other options of traveling to major cities i.e, Sydney is by road or train.

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Patsie Hatley

@Hatley (163781)

• Garden Grove, California

6 May 16

that would be lovely for y our community if y ou had a good ailrlines so you could flymyself I prefer train or bus

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

6 May 16

The plane takes an hour there is no bus and the train takes 8-9 hours. I just can't sit comfortably for that long.

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Toni

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

6 May 16

And how long does it take to travel by road or train?

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

6 May 16

To drive takes 4-5 hours and I'm no longer familiar with traffic conditions. I live in a remote area with little traffic and have not lived in Sydney for over 30 years. The train takes 8 - 9 hours.

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

6 May 16

@toniganzon The train becomes very crowded too and i have a problem being in enclosed places.

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Toni

@toniganzon (72285)

• Philippines

6 May 16

@MsTickle Wish they'd bring back the plane. 8-9 hours on a train is too long.

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Lee Ka

@kaka135 (14916)

• Malaysia

8 May 16

Which part of Australia are you staying? Do you mean there's no airline to fly locally? I would definitely take a flight rather than train if I'd travel in Australia. I remember it took me 22 hours to go from a suburb near Sydney to Adelaide. After that, I just preferred to take a flight, as it's much faster and the flight tickets were not too expensive too. Hope you can fly soon!

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

8 May 16

I'm in the North West region of NSW. It takes over an hour to drive to the nearest airport. Year it's pretty bad for these modern times. It's quite expensive to fly too.

rebel_woman06

@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

16 May 16

It would indeed be good for your community But i suppose there is an airport near your town and you can just go there to take a plane ride to wherever you will be going .

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

17 May 16

That's the idea. the airport is about an hour and a half away.

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DianneN

@DianneN (246881)

• United States

8 May 16

We travel a lot and need airports much closer to us.

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

8 May 16

There was a small airport 35 minutes away but it's been closed for a long time. The crop duster is there now.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325818)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 May 16

I can imagine an airline service would be very welcome. Is there an airfield there if the flying doctor is needed?

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

14 May 16

There is an air ambulance at Tamworth another 165 miles away. If we need to get somewhere big, fast, Care Flight chopper comes in. They also do mail and food drops when we are in flood.

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

15 May 16

@JudyEv I think I may have done one way back when. There has not been a flood since January 2012, the same time my father passed away. I haven't been here when a major food drop occurred, I think we were sent bread and milk one time and definitely mail. SES also called in to see if we needed any medications. A friend was airlifted for medical reasons one year and the next year my friend was flown to Sydney for an appointment with a Power of Attorney Tribunal. I used to travel through the flood waters in my little Holden Astra. Since I've had my all wheel drive, we haven't even had much rain.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (325818)

• Rockingham, Australia

15 May 16

@MsTickle So have you been marooned by flood? How about a post about it? What sort of food do they drop? Is there stuff that is pretty useless in the drops?

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sishy7

@sishy7 (27169)

• Australia

6 May 16

I sure hope they meant 2016 as that would only be another month or so...

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

6 May 16

It seemed strange to me that in the council wide area newsletter they said "mid year".I reckon it should have said "mid year 2016". but that's me.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (134465)

• Roseburg, Oregon

6 May 16

That would be great to get an airline.

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

6 May 16

It will be awesome. I just hope it's not too expensive.

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Macarrosel

@Macarrosel (7498)

• Philippines

6 May 16

We have that situation few years ago. Good thing our Mayor did everything to have air flights in our area. I hope you have your airlines to fly in your area too soonest.

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MsTickle

@MsTickle (25180)

• Australia

6 May 16

there was a lot of work at the airport on the flightside so the infrastructure could be upgraded to be better for the aircraft landing safely.

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