boston college 73% of heathrow, miami. 64% of heathrow chicago. 64% of the heathrow to new york and 47% of heathrow the los angeles capacity. given the constraints to heathrow there will be no chance for any carrier to try to mount a meaningful, competitive response to these captive heathrow u.s. city markets. is a right that one group should have a 60, 70, 80 or even 100% share of a route so they can milk consumers? so times haven't changed. as heathrow's owner beasley said in a recent submission to the department of transportation, heathrow is as full and access to it is as limited as it historically has ever been. of course, the eu, u.s. phase one agreement does not guarantee heathrow's thoughts, gays or other facilities. in fact, public financial filings indicate continental airlines paid $209 million. i.e. over 50 million per slot there to support a single heathrow round-trip flight. free access to heathrow, hardly. what european carriers provide a handful of slots to facilitate the few heathrow flights last summer that supply of slots is not limitless as ba aa content. in fact

free access to heathrow? hardly. while european carriers provide a handful of slots to facilitate the few new flights last summer that supply of factual slots is not limb minimumless as they contend. in fact, that very small pool of slots is now exhausted. also, with j.f.k. recently joining the heathrow club as a closed airport, red flags should be flying high on both side of the atlantic. b.a. and a.a. argues that even if heathrow is full, competitors can operate from gatwick. well a stampede wishing to move to heathrow would not have occurred if financial returns were in any way comparable. heathrow has a clear premium as an airport. after all, why would its owner want to keep it yet agree to sell off gatwick? b.a. argues it needs to link up with americans because sky team and star are dominant at their hubs. but the fact is that even b.a. on its own is already bigger between heathrow and the u.s., the businessiest air corridor, than star is from frankfurt or sky team is from paris. and that's even before it gets t

and from the u.k., the business community in particular, insist on flying out of heathrow. if you fly on virgin atlantic, we have our own drive-through check-in service, and we can get you to our lounge in about 4 minutes from the the time our limousine drops you off at heathrow. and so, and so if you haven't flown virgin atlantic, give us a try, and hopefully we can win you over to heathrow. thank you. >> of all the countries where virgin does air transport, which country has the most restrictive laws and regulations? >> well, the airline industry's a strange, a strange industry in that there are still restrictions on a global basis. and we have urged for years that, you know, why should the airline industry be any different from any other industry? but, you know, america has a lot of restrictions. but in fairness, i mean, most countries around the world have a lot of restrictions when it comes to the airline industry. >> you mentioned some of your innovative ideas like the seatback movies and all that sort of thing. who thinks these things up? are they in a room somewhere

as far as the heathrow expansion is concerned, it is arm contentious issue but the house has voted on the matter. >> mr. speaker, my right honorable friend will know the police constablery is the best force. burglaries are a 27-year low. the number of police officers, special constables and staff have increased by 1400. that's 30% since 1997. can my right honorable friend tell me what impact on staff, on crime, a 10% cut we will have. >> mr. speaker, it could involve about 15,000 police being lost and i think those people who advocate 10% cut in the home office are going to face to the consequences it will mean less policemen on the beat. it will be less neighborhood policing and i notice members opposite are not worried about a 10% cut in police. i think they'll hear from their constituents if that happens. >> has the prime minister have any level of concern about the expressed intention of the chief constables to enact the police reserve in northern ireland? does he recognize there's a heightened level of distent activity and the chief constable is leaving his job. >> yeah, mr. spea

by 2012, half of the public heathrow work north some states will be ready to retire. in my opinion, our public health system did a good job of managing the recent h1n1 flu outbreak but this incident has shown us how critical it is to not let our public health workforce deteriorate any further and i'm pleased that the -- my piece of us was incorporated into the draft bill. madam secretary, i want my colleagues to understand how critical the public health work forcest is. will you please outline for the benefit of this committee how your job is dependent on having a robust public health workforce backing you up? >> congresswoman, first of all, thank you for your leadership in this area. and your long-standing expertise and insistence that the public health infrastructure has to be part of this dialogue and discussion and i think you appropriately identified them. the recent situation still with us, the h1n1 virus and the anticipation that we'll need additional activity points to the need for a robust infrastructure. and as you correctly point out, in many parts of the c

we were in a hotel room out by heathrow, ready to go. i woke up at 3 a.m. with my head just full of these stories. it was a little room, there wasn't any place to go and i didn't want to wake moira up. i went into the bathroom, sat down on the john, took out a yellow legal pad and started writing. it came time to wake her up, 7 a.m. i did; we got dressed, got in a cab, went out to the airport. i'm writing in the cab as we go out. we got to the airport, got checked in, sat down to have coffee and i did some more writing. got on the plane, flew home to the states -- i'm writing the whole time. as the plane landed in new york i had the first chapter done. c-span: obviously, you get excited about putting the words on paper. how do you get your reward? not just in your head, but do you see it anywhere? what's the best thing anybody can say to you? >> guest: oh, i get lovely letters from people from all over, and it just means the world to me. people say nice things to me about the books. they tell me that they've read them and they enjoy them, and that's the big