It's kind of like the honor system. It's not like we have a policeman waiting. It depends on the integrity of the people using the system. |
St. Charles County has been one of the fastest-growing counties not just in the state, but in the country. |
We are expecting a 6 percent increase in homes sold in 2005 over the number sold in 2004. And that may be a low estimate. It may be more like 7 (percent) or 8 percent. |
We don't care who it is as long as it's busy. |
We don't care who it is as long as it's busy. We are always trying to do it better. We don't want to get in the business of artificially limiting capacity. Our goal is to use every bit of capacity that's there. It's just tough when you have one runway in high mountains. It would be different if there were capacity that was going unused. |
We had one situation a couple of years ago where we had a disgruntled user who figured out a way to hit the system hard. He got 83 slots between Aspen, Eagle and Rifle. We noticed that, so we just canceled them. We do watch that. |
We had one situation a couple of years ago where we had a disgruntled user who figured out a way to hit the system hard. He got 83 slots between Aspen, Eagle and Rifle. We noticed that, so we just canceled them. We do watch that. There is some logic in the system for how soon there can be another reservation. There is some analysis there, and some monitoring to try to keep it reasonable. |
You have so much demand on the system for these slots. There are some companies, I don't know what they use, but they're pretty aggressive at trying to get slots. |