Opinion

Should CLT Be A Flyover Airport?

WFAE | By Tom Bullock

Published September 9, 2015 at 4:37 PM EDT

The Charlotte airport seen from a plane.

Charlotte Douglas International Airport has found itself in the news recently…albeit through no fault of its own. All because one man was allegedly willing to do just about anything to avoid catching a connecting flight in our (mostly) beloved airport. This led to the firing Tuesday of United Airlines CEO and a question about Charlotte, are we a flyover airport? Here’s WFAE’s Tom Bullock to explore that thought.

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Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.

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