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Article: Up in the air: settlement appears at hand in controversy between Jonesboro and airline. (Jonesboro Municipal Airport; Lone Star Airlines)
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- Arkansas Business
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- August 10, 1992
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Both sides in the Jonesboro Municipal Airport-Lone Star Airlines controversy expect to see a resolution to the conflict sometime this month.
To what extent the controversy will be resolved is anyone's guess, since it centers around something the nation's airlines seem to be in short supply of: money.
Lone Star, Jonesboro's only airline, owes the city roughly $3,000 in rent for leased space at the Jonesboro Municipal Airport terminal. Charged $467 a month for the space, Lone Star has failed to pay rent to the city for the past six months, according to airport commissioner Bob Troutt.
In an attempt to collect, the city's airport commission has ...