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RE: Ivar Fjeld's "Letter of Introduction" of Nov 23 This is just to decline with all modesty the credit given by Ivar Fjeld to me for introducing him to Goanet. But, yes, we did chat recently about Dabolim Airport and I did urge him to share his experience on Goanet where a discussion on the subject had begun lately. He was telling me how one of the pioneers of charter flights to Goa, Condor, discontinued its flights when in 1996 it was refused permission to land just because some training flights were underway. I do find that Dabolim matters get low priority in our media. For example the emergency experienced by an IA flight on Saturday is being reported in the press only today (four days later!) To Goanet's credit, it was reported herein on Monday I think. Also even under the best of circumstances (that is when IFFI is not an obsession!) our government does not seem to be paying any attention to the needs of the people for low cost air travel. It needs to work energetically to get everybody concerned around a table to talk directly to each other about their problems at Dabolim. Once these problems are understood clearly perhaps some earnest negotiations can begin to alleviate as many problems as possible.
