Mr. Leonard, whose company is the former ValuJet, said the government should give low-fare airlines like his more access to gates and slots at crowded airports.
Discussing the challenges ahead, all three men agreed that access to gates and slots at major airports like Chicago O'Hare and Newark Liberty, which Virgin America has so far been unsuccessful at negotiating, is central to the airline's growth.
But Heathrow is already near capacity, and so the four American carriers seeking to fly there -- Delta, Northwest, Continental Airlines and US Airways -- pressed Washington to demand that American and British Airways give them access to gates and takeoff and landing slots to ensure that they could compete.
"Ninety-nine percent of the departures out of O'Hare are operated by legacy carriers, and that is quite unique given the size of the market," Mr. Cush said, but added that he was optimistic he could negotiate access to gates at O'Hare "in the next couple of months".
The reward could be in the form of virtual currency, virtual goods, or even access to gated content or services".
Companies that outsource middle income jobs to subcontractors that pay near poverty wages should be denied access to gates at airports and Congress should strictly regulate these kinds of actions as conditions for granting operating licenses to airlines.
An additional issue is that in both bottom and top gate architectures, the dielectric must be patterned to allow electrical access to the gate or source and drain contacts, an important requirement for circuit integration.
Accounts varied, but the incident resulted in a maintenance truck's being battered and stuck under a electronic gate that witnesses said had been lowered by strikers, who had access to the gate's remote control box.
From 1961 to 1989 the Brandenburg Gate came to symbolize divided Germany, as the Berlin Wall shut off access to the gate for both East and West Germans.
Last, Spinoza seems to have had access to the Gate of Heaven by Abraham Cohen de Herrera, the most philosophically sophisticated Kabbalist of the 17th century.
