He said if you observed basic rules and security you would be OK. We knew he was playing it down for our sake and there was obvious danger.

Aside from the rules that airports have regarding noise levels, which in turn often restricts how many planes they can operate and land, it is obviously nicer to live in an environment where quieter planes are used, posing less disturbances to a neighborhood.

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

I think New York did a great job. But the commercial terms changed, security rules changed, the guarantees changed. We were at a disadvantage, in my view.

Those are the rules. I'm not going to cause friction, go out and get all [ticked] off about it. The people that made that rule are the ones that sign my checks.

They violated really a whole myriad of rules, really.