The Cairns Post

Never leave keys in car

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THE rampant and escalating number of home invasions to obtain car keys and subsequent car theft seems not to have reached the notice for many people.

Why I do not know but there seems a lack of public warnings to avoid such devastatin­g consequenc­es.

Firstly, lock and then never ever leave keys in your car. Then, car keys need to be always in a secure location in the most difficult place in your house for others to find them. It is that simple but obviously a nuisance for all of us these days to have to put up with the inconvenie­nce of security. Brian Watson, Mooroobool same level of services as other “internatio­nal airports” (fire and air traffic control).

Air Services also have a user-pays policy. As a result aviation companies, big and small, are paying more, per aircraft, movement in Cairns, which results in higher per seat costs and therefore higher airfares.

That particular­ly affects companies with less flights, and less seats (eg remote services).

In capital cities they can spread the cost over many more aircraft movements.

If the State Government subsidises the difference in Air Services Australia’s charges on all aircraft, big and small, it would be a start.

Another issue is that flights in and out of Cairns carry few, if any, first-class passengers.

First class pays a large part of the cost of operating an aircraft.

Addressing the lack of first-class passengers is a bit more complex but surely they can come up with something. Maybe a subsidy for empty first-class seats? Warwick James, Manoora 1586: Under threat from Indians, colonists sail from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, ending first settlement by English in America. 1961: The first evidence proving the existence of Pontius Pilate is found when a slab with his name on it is discovered by an Italian dig at Caesarea in Israel. 1984: Michael Jordan (above) is signed

to the Chicago Bulls basketball team. 2003: A Nigerian oil pipeline punctured by thieves explodes 50km north of the Abia state capital Umuahia, killing 125 villagers. 2013: Wikileaks founder, Australian Julian Assange, marks the first anniversar­y of his arrival in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. PRIVACY POLICY:

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