Its threat to build a private airport managed to put some pepper on the tail of policymakers, says Peter Harbison, of the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation in Sydney.
Their Airbus A320 had just arrived from Atlanta at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida Monday night when a wingtip hit the tail of another plane.
Kennedy airport, when an Air France Airbus A380 clipped the tail fins of a much smaller Comair flight CRJ700, observers and analysts have been asking questions about whether a similar accident could happen elsewhere, and just when a super-large jumbo jet is too big.