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COMMENT 330314	2012-10-11 10:08 AM
Anything but Storke.
COMMENT 330318	2012-10-11 10:13 AM
Santa Barbara Airport Terminal. In the Santa Barbara Airport, WHO WOULDA THUNK! Keep it simple and elegant...
COMMENT 330320	2012-10-11 10:16 AM
Santa Barbara Airport Terminal, simple and to the point.
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-11 10:29 AM
Casa Esprenza.
COMMENT 330339	2012-10-11 10:42 AM
"The AT&T-Fedex-McDondald's Airport"
COMMENT 330340	2012-10-11 10:42 AM
hugo chavez field
COMMENT 330341	2012-10-11 10:45 AM
oh geez... not again. Here's my suggestion: Poorly Designed Terminal at Santa Barbara Airport
AQUAHOLIC	2012-10-11 11:01 AM
Some folks may not have actually flown in, nor out, of our fantastic hometown airport...it's design and aesthetic are first rate. You're unlikely to find a more beautiful airport than ours, and for that reason, I vote for keeping it's current name.... it doesn't need any name other than Santa Barbara, IMO.
COMMENT 330350P	2012-10-11 11:04 AM
Another vote for Santa Barbara Airport Terminal, aka SBA. That's all it needs. Keep it a-political and don't sell naming rights.
COMMENT 330365	2012-10-11 11:34 AM
I'd name it Storke. However, it is much harder to get on/off planes at the new terminal than it was at the old. You still go up/down the stairs attached to the plane, and then in addition you must go up/down a long ramp to/from the second floor of the terminal. Seems odd to have spent so much and as a result degraded performance for passengers.
COMMENT 330366	2012-10-11 11:36 AM
The Goleta International Terminial
COMMENT 330369	2012-10-11 11:43 AM
Save the naming. Save it. Some day we can look forward to having a chance to name after someone or something great. Not now.
COMMENT 330320	2012-10-11 11:45 AM
The whole naming issue came from two interest groups each with an agenda, to get the terminal named after their guy. One guy was a player in the city's acquisition of the airport property. My problem with this is memorializing a paid city official for doing his job 60 years ago. The other guy was a low key philanthropist that disliked being in the public eye. Having read the history, I have to feel that he would be upset by the publicity. This is all a silly egofest being pushed by a small number of people with an agenda that I fail to understand. Santa Barbara Airline Terminal as a nice sound.
COMMENT 330376	2012-10-11 11:52 AM
Jonathan Winters Airport. He is still alive and will be 87 in exactly one month.
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-11 12:30 PM
Casa Esprenza Topia.
COMMENT 330387	2012-10-11 12:44 PM
Edhat Terminal
COMMENT 330388	2012-10-11 12:46 PM
It's no big deal renaming an airport. Just about everyone (including both airports' websites) still calls Bob Hope Airport the Burbank Airport and John Wayne Airport the Orange County Airport. Pick someone worthy, name the airport after them, then go on with your lives and still refer to it as the Santa Barbara Airport. Easy peasy.
COMMENT 330339	2012-10-11 12:49 PM
Oprah Airport
COMMENT 330393P	2012-10-11 12:52 PM
The S.B. American Riviera Terminal
COMMENT 330396P	2012-10-11 12:59 PM
How about the Independent Terminal at Santa Barbara Airport since the entire reason this has come up is the owner of the Indy Marianne Partridge wants to name it for one of her forefathers a former mayor. Because she is not better than Wendy in the ethics department the Indy has been filled with subtle stories about him, and mentions of the airport without actually saying she is the one pushing this. Bravo Marianne way to pull a McCaw!
REXOFSB	2012-10-11 01:08 PM
How is it that the alleged airport "director" has the time to moderate such foolishness as this when she won't even answer e-mails from citizens with actual airport business? I vote that we name it "Terminal Ennui," in honor of Karen Ramsdell.
COMMENT 330403	2012-10-11 01:10 PM
SBA will still be SBA after it's named something else. Leave it at that, Santa Barbara Airport. Or have a drawing, sell tickets for 500 bucks a crack, and name it after a random person, Joe Blo International Airport or something. Use the money to help get rid of the TSA pervs. If there was ever an argument for privatization, they are it. Ditch the goons.
COMMENT 330405	2012-10-11 01:12 PM
NOT for the flim-flam artist Rickard. The state had to pass special legislation to not let another trickster pull the stunt that he did to get this land for the city even though it is not connected to it. Sorry legacy to memorialize.
SHOREBIRD	2012-10-11 02:05 PM
Santa Barbara Airport. Like we say to a dog "leave it!"
COMMENT 330425	2012-10-11 02:17 PM
Randy and Evi Quaid Galactic Airport! REQGA Is the airport director going to read EdHat? Why didn't KEYT give the airport director's email address? Who's in charge?
AQUAHOLIC	2012-10-11 02:31 PM
I'm now starting a petition for: Aquaholic's Awesome Airport. I know it'll be confusing, and we'll surely have an inordinate number of folks just looking for a map, trip advice or insurance, not to mention the occasional poor soul looking for their monthly AA meeting site, but it's a risk worth taking.
COMMENT 330440	2012-10-11 02:35 PM
How many times is this going to come up? Hasn't the council asked this question before? How much time do they plan to spend on this unimportant topic? Can we please get people on the council that actually care to address the real issues in Santa Barbara?!
COMMENT 330444	2012-10-11 02:50 PM
MSSB - ditto that! What a tremendous waste of time and resources. I, for one, don't think that montrosity is even worthy of special name.
COMMENT 330449	2012-10-11 03:07 PM
Is it up for voting again? I've seen this story at least three times on edhat. Posslby four. Let's just flood the system with "Beavis and Butthead Terminal" and be done with it.
COMMENT 330450	2012-10-11 03:10 PM
All of these comments are useless. Send them to the Airport Director. ...and to quote 425 "Why didn't KEYT give the airport director's email address?"
COMMENT 330453	2012-10-11 03:24 PM
How about - "here we go again!"
COMMENT 330403	2012-10-11 03:32 PM
@MSSB: 1. A bunch of times. 2. Yes. Memories are short so it must be brought up again and again and again or until you blow a gasket whichever occurs first. 3. Forever or until the city deteriorates into a seething crimefest. 4. I don't think it's possible but we could get lucky, after the sky turns green.
FIRST DISTRICT	2012-10-11 03:46 PM
There have been many, many people and organizations responsible for making our County special. It would be impossible to single out just one. The words, Santa Barbara, are more than sufficient and that has been my vote to our Council members.
COMMENT 330366	2012-10-11 04:06 PM
Joe Mamma's Terminal
COMMENT 330474	2012-10-11 04:15 PM
Goleta Sloughport
ROGER DODGER	2012-10-11 04:50 PM
@467 For the Win!
COMMENT 330512	2012-10-11 06:01 PM
The Michael Jackson false arrested airport.
COMMENT 330513	2012-10-11 06:21 PM
ugly. generic.pick one.
COMMENT 330405	2012-10-11 08:06 PM
Terminal Illness
SBARTS	2012-10-12 03:54 AM
Bud Bottoms Airport
COMMENT 330583	2012-10-12 07:07 AM
DON'T THEY HAVE ANYTHING BETTER TO DO THAN SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON A STUPID NAMING CONTEST ?- SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT.
COMMENT 330587	2012-10-12 07:23 AM
Just don't name it after Fess Parker or Ronald Reagan.
COMMENT 330599	2012-10-12 07:53 AM
Have you been out there this week to see the palm trees? or all the lighting? This is a major disaster!
RDH	2012-10-12 08:55 AM
I completely agree with so many others that it should remain the Santa Barbara Airport--period. But if a name change has to be made, I like the suggestion I heard some time ago to call it "Mescatitlan Airport", after all, the airport does sit on the very site of that lost Indian city. The fact that it would be confusing to many travelers is exactly the reason why we should keep the present name.
RONNIEB	2012-10-12 09:01 AM
How about "Can't Match Old Terminal Airport?" SBA lost it's soul with this sterile new terminal. The old one was probably the most charming in the country.
RDH	2012-10-12 09:37 AM
The KEYT article did provide an e-mail address to which people are encouraged to make their suggestions: Kramsdell@SantaBarbaraCA.gov
SBALAX	2012-10-12 11:04 AM
The last time this came up I DID send my opinion to Karen Ramsdell and I got a response. My suggestion was to transfer the name of the old terminal (Earl Ovington) to the new one or, better, to just leave it as is. She said that the rock with the plaque honoring Earl Ovington is to be reinstalled -- if it hasn't already -- near the newly restored original terminal. On our last trip out of SBA I noticed that they seem to be working on Gate 5 so that passengers who arrive on one of the United Express Brasilias won't have to walk up two ramps to get inside the terminal. Instead they will use the escalator or elevator. Reverse to get to the aircraft. BTW, on that last trip we made the trip down the ramps twice -- and back up once -- because of poor communication between the gate (Now staffed by American Eagle) and the cockpit. Very unprofessional.
COMMENT 330350P	2012-10-12 01:50 PM
Concur with RONNIEB...the new terminal is lifeless and cold. The old one had charm and a funky SB vibe. Seeing it on arrival felt like home. It needed refurbishment, not replacement. This monstrosity could be Generic Terminal, Anywhere, USA (but clearly USA because of the disproportionate TSA pat-down arena). Service is no better, functionality only slightly so because of Jetways for the stair-challenged.
COMMENT 330733	2012-10-12 01:52 PM
339, 341 -320 was nice, 425, 366...I stopped counting after that: Nice chortles and guffaws. And we wonder why very little gets done. I'd be embarrassed to have my name on that structure. It's ridonkulous!
COMMENT 330767	2012-10-12 03:24 PM
My suggestion is: Fiesta Airport & Terminal
COMMENT 330778	2012-10-12 03:52 PM
oh my God I needed some good laughs .. thanks all.. soo funnnnyyyyy!!! I'll vote for my MJ.. MJBAD2DATHRILLA
FIRST DISTRICT	2012-10-13 01:11 AM
RONNIEB speaks for many of us. As does 32P.
COMMENT 330405	2012-10-15 10:00 AM
The flow and signage of the new terminal is abominable.

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