US Airways banned from serving alcohol on New Mexico flights

30th January 2007, 10:27 PM

"ant" <infinity.manager@> wrote in message
news:52afg8F1np2ibU1@mid....
> Duh_OZ wrote:
>
> > The lack of a license means the airline is "effectively bootlegging,"
> > he said.
>
> Oh my god. americans do so love their bureacracy.
>
> --
> ant

No, only officials of the 50 States who have never bothered to read the US
Constitution. I violate the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania every
week by engaging in interstate commerce, but I violate no Federal laws. The
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would get laughed out of Federal court if they
attempted to prosecute me.

31st January 2007, 07:59 PM

Hatunen <hatunen@cox.net> wrote:

>>The other airlines flying to NM have licenses, according to a publised
>>report.
>
>I seriously doubt it. This was all settled by the US Supreme
>Court years ago when a Kansas sheriff on a flight entering Kansas
>air space arrested the stewardess for serving liquor. I'll see if
>I can find the decision.

No. You're missing the point. Overflights are not regulated. Flights into and
out of a state may be.