In a Sunday editorial, the LA Times took on an aviation-education role for the public in the greater Los Angeles area by chastising the Santa Monica City Council as it attempts to “make the airport [Santa Monica] so inhospitable and difficult to use — essentially ‘starving’ the airport of services — that tenants leave and planes stop flying in and out.” The paper also detailed the airport’s benefits, as well as outlining its role in the national transportation system.
LA Times Takes City of Santa Monica to Task
Key Takeaways:
- The Santa Monica City Council is aggressively pursuing the closure of Santa Monica Airport (SMO) due to noise and safety concerns, actively making it difficult to use and issuing eviction notices to tenants.
- An LA Times editorial criticized the city's actions, emphasizing SMO's crucial role as a regional transportation hub for business, organ transplant, animal rescue, and medical flights (like Angel Flight West), as well as its importance for disaster relief.
- The article highlights that closing SMO would strain the already crowded LAX and suggests that only a lawsuit from the FAA appears likely to halt the city's efforts to shut down the airport.
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