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drop in traffic at Palm Beach International during the president’s visits. He said this indicates the planes’ operators have decided to avoid the area altogether rather than deal with the hassle and expense of diverting off-course and having their aircraft, crew and passengers intrusively searched and vetted. › Ms Murphy had more – much more – to say about the businesses impacted by Mr Trump’s disinclination to stay put in Washington over the weekends. For example, the companies that handle cleaning, catering and maintenance for the aircraft are hurting, while flights for every purpose from sky-diving to wildlife monitoring are now “either forbidden or require going through an onerous, and often fruitless, approval process.” But one of her respondents – Ms Smith, of the flight training school at Lantana – summed up neatly. Wrote Ms Murphy, “She said it was as if a cloud had descended over the airport, similar to when it was discovered that one of the 11 September hijackers, Mohamed Atta, had rented an airplane there.”

she would lose contracts from local colleges, endangering the business she started in 1998 and the livelihood of her 19 instructors. Dave Kerner, a Palm Beach County commissioner who trained to get his pilot’s licence at Lantana, said: “I’d love to talk to President Trump on the tarmac and show him what’s going on. It’s a level of devastation for my constituents that is kind of frightening.” › Palm Beach International Airport, less than 2.1 nautical miles from Mar-a-Lago, owes 60 per cent of its traffic to general aviation. When Mr Trump is in residence, all inbound flights must first detour to one of five so-called gateway airports, including Teterboro Airport in New Jersey and Orlando International Airport in Florida, where aircraft can undergo the security screening necessary to get clearance to fly on to Palm Beach. Doug Carr, a security expert at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), called attention to the steep

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