SPARKEY
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2012-10-14 08:22 PM |
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I don't like the new airport. Making Santa Barbara and SBA adapt to something that the area was never designed or capable of doing well (bigger planes and more people) just isn't a good idea. I flew in and out of the new airport in May and it took much longer to get my luggage than it did in the past. It is definitely new, but improved? Not so much.
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AUNTIE S.
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2012-10-14 06:30 PM |
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The jetways are a joke. They're made for larger planes, but here you have to go upstairs through security to board then down the jetway to the small commuter plane, then up again into the plane. As I've said before, whoever designed this monstroasity has never flown out of SBA.
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STRAY
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2012-10-14 04:55 PM |
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Airlines are reducing service on the order of 5,000 flights nationwide. The folks that are critical of the efforts by our local Airport Director and her staff need to get a dose of compassion. Be thankful in this age of airline company mergers/monopolies and flight downsizing that good ol' SBA has as many options as we have. Other cities have it far worse.....
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SHOREBIRD
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2012-10-14 04:24 PM |
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The airport director HAS A CLUE. Any airlines wants to expand service and bring in bigger planes, we are ready. We don't have to wait for jetways to be built. This airport is wonderful. Anyone complaining should go sit in terminal #1 in San Francisco. Then you could have valid points.
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COMMENT 331277
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2012-10-14 04:01 PM |
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I agree with MesaJim. I have family in Phoenix and I have two choices if I want to visit them. Fly or drive. By air it's an hour, if I drive it's about 7 hours. I'll take the walk on the tarmac.
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MESAJIM
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2012-10-14 03:36 PM |
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Air travel is nothing short of a miracle. I would love to have the time and means to fly somewhere--a luxury so many of us take for granted. I can't see myself complaining about having to walk a few extra yards--heavens forbid--without a roof over my head for a few moments/minutes.
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ESL TEACHER
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2012-10-14 02:04 PM |
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Is this a common occurrence too? Recently I arrived on US Airways from Phoenix in the early evening. However, we had to wait about 20 minutes or so on the plane before we could get off as apparently the gate was occupied by another plane. There were no other planes in sight except for another one waiting behind us. It seems strange that one would have to wait so long to deplane at such a small airport.
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COMMENT 331218P
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2012-10-14 12:21 PM |
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331213P - you do not know what you are talking about.
An unfair smear.
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COMMENT 331213P
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2012-10-14 11:56 AM |
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I guess it would be too much to ask to hire an airport director who had a clue.
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COMMENT 331191
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2012-10-14 10:39 AM |
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Common sense is broken............ Thinking for yourself is broken..... Should i take a picture of cones around you and assume you are broken? Cones are there so you don't walk or drive over them...Its supposed to be a safety barrier for YOUR safety. Not to assume that something is not working.
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COMMENT 331177
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2012-10-14 10:04 AM |
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Last weekend at 11pm arrived from SF. We had to deplane and walk a fair distance on the tarmac where they led us to a jetway staircase--where we found the door locked. 20 of us waited there for 10 minutes until what appeared to be the last remaining airport employee saw us, went back into the terminal to get the key to unlock the door. It would have been a 30 second walk to enter the terminal at ground level. Upstairs, at the gate waiting area (I think it was #5, the last one) the United computer display on the wall above the desk was missing. I was told that the door to the jetway swings open and hits the display, destroying two thus far. Outside, getting to and from the (currently) only parking lot is a nightmare of yellow police tape, barriers and cones, with no clear path in or out and, in fact, one has to climb over, or under, the tape. And all of this "new and improved" terminal has cost city tax payers how much?
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SBALAX
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2012-10-14 09:50 AM |
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From the picture it would appear that the question about not using the jetway should be addressed to Frontier Airlines. Did you bother to ask any of the crew?
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COMMENT 331143P
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2012-10-14 08:32 AM |
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I agree with some other posters -- I don't think the jetways are broken, they're just not being used. They were included in the airport remodel with the idea that larger jets would come here in the future.
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COMMENT 331218P
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2012-10-14 08:07 AM |
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GIZMO1 - I did not know that the City of SB was in the business of manufacturing jetways. (Maybe, they were made in China because those jobs were shipped overseas by the City of SB.)
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SHOREBIRD
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2012-10-14 08:04 AM |
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The jetways are designed to fit bigger planes. Not the little commuter planes that service Santa Barbara. You face the same situation in San Francisco, LA and Denver. Walk down the plane's built in staircase and across the tarmac to walk up an outside ramp to a jetway. Nothing is broken.
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GIZMO1
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2012-10-14 07:57 AM |
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The problem is that the City iof SB is in charge
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COMMENT 331112
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2012-10-14 06:48 AM |
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Since most of the planes using SBA are commuter jets that are loaded and unloaded out on the tarmac, the jetways seems superfluous at best!
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COMMENT 331111
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2012-10-14 06:27 AM |
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If you were flying Alaska Airlines, it is because they have refused to pay the airport fees to use the jetways(per a security guard there).
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COMMENT 331108P
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2012-10-14 04:52 AM |
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The more things change the more they stay the same. I have not personally been to the airport since it reopened because you can't have a leisurely meal anymore unless you are checked in and thru the security screening. What's up with that nonsense?
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