On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:34:36 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:

ATC did in fact get him on the ground "right away" faster
than if they had tried to move all the other aircraft out of
the way.

There's no reason I can think of that he could not have been cleared
for straight in from his position to the runway he requested; traffic
could have been moved out of the way without problem or incident --
delay, sure, but no problem or incident.

Rick