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Transportation Departments Forgot About The Reporters
by Paul on 10/28/09 at 07:35 AM ET
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from Ken Warren of the Ottawa Citizen,
Three newspaper reporters covering the Ottawa Senators—including the Citizen’s Allen Panzeri—were caught in the middle of a nasty free-trade fight between airlines in the United States and Canada on Tuesday.
The reporters were denied access on the Senators’ charter flight bound for Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, because of a U.S. Department of Transportation Agency ruling.
Writers from the newspapers typically travel on the club’s flights—paying market rate for the service—because it provides the convenience of being in attendance for all of the Senators’ games and practices. Commercial flight schedules don’t offer the option of flying from one city to the next immediately following games and not all NHL cities are directly accessible from Ottawa commercially.
“It might only be three people, for now, but clearly this is a barrier as to how businesses operate,” said Citizen editor-in-chief Gerry Nott.
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