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MAYOR GIULIANI DENOUNCES CONTINENTAL'S NEWARK AIRPORT
ADVERTISEMENTS AS UNSEEMLY AND UNFAIR
Asks the Airline to Take the Ads Off the Air and Out of Print
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani today released a letter written to Chairman and CEO of Continental Airlines Gordon M. Bethune, criticizing the airline's recent Newark Airport advertising campaign as unfair and unseemly. The radio and print ads, which attempt to lure passengers to Newark Airport and away from LaGuardia and Kennedy, are largely negative and convey an unfair impression of the City. The Mayor wrote that if Chairman Bethune did not take the ads off the air and out of print, New York City would take "further action."
Also released today was a letter from Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro to Robert Boyle, Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in which Deputy Mayor Mastro wrote that if the Port Authority were treating New York equitably, it "would be doing everything it could to convince Continental to remove these ads."
Copies of both letters are attached.
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