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pilots picketing you.

I was all set to join them.

I heard about your report.

Besides everything else

now you're an authority

on snow clearance?

I call them as I see them.

Then you're due for an eye check.

For your information, clearing

those runways and taxiways

is the equivalent of 700 miles

of two-lane highway.

Well, what do you know.

And I'll bet you measured

every foot of it by yourself.

We've also had ten inches

of snow in the last 24 hours.

Anchorage had twice as much,

and they're clean.

They've got twice the equipment.

Well, then get some more.

This isn't Alaska.

You don't spend an extra

two million dollars for machinery

you might use once in ten years.

You buy for the average snowfall.

When emergency hits you use

what you have

and you work around the clock.

Sitting behind that desk has made

you think like a bookkeeper.

I didn't always fly a desk.

Well, all right, Daddy.

Now, you tell me all about

when you were a war hero.

You flew those pursuit jobs

you could land in a parking lot.

When I'm setting down

over 200.000 pounds of 707

I want something under my wheels

that's plenty long and mighty dry.

It'll be dry tonight,

but not too long.

Two-niner's closed.

The pilot from your Flight 45

made a shortcut across the field,

and he didn't make it.

Well, what are you doing about it?

Well, when the snow melts in April,

we'll get it out.

What the hell do you think

I'm doing about it?

Now stop that, both of you.

You're right. It's a waste of time

arguing with a penguin.

Goodbye.

Have a good flight, dear.

What do you want me

to bring you back from Rome?

Just yourself.

Maybe if you have the time

I could use a pair of white gloves.

Size six and a half, right?

No.

I'm the one who wears

a size seven and a half.

American Airlines

Flight 103 for St. Louis

is now in the final boarding...

Hey, now, that's a good idea, Mel

using little old ladies for skycaps.

You keep that up.

You're doing a good job.

Mel?

For my sake, be patient with him.

How you can live with

that over-aged juvenile

delinquent I'll never know.

There's just the two of us.

If I left him, what would I have?

Would you have any more

if he decided to leave you?

He won't.

The moment a girl gets too serious,

he waves his wedding ring like a flag.

I'm his disaster insurance.

More like group insurance.

Thanks for caring, Mel.

Don't worry.

Someday he'll come home

for some other reason

than to just change his clothes.

Well, I hope so.

That's for me. Goodbye, dear.

Lufthansa Flight 82 for Frankfurt...

Bakersfeld.

No, no.

No, I'll take care of it myself.

Will miss Pamela Blake

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