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July 29, 2020, 10:40 am
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Source: City of Santa Barbara
Just a few months ago, the Airport anticipated a record-breaking summer travel season after nearly 50% increases in passenger traffic in January and February. Instead, the Airport is now working to recover from record-breaking passenger losses. Henry Thompson, Airport Director, provides a message about traveling through the Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Just try to see if you can stay focused on the issue of this discussion and not your NIMBY noise issue. I don’t know what reality you live in but there was never a time that “only United went in and out a few times a day.” People have off and on been complaining about aircraft noise for the 40 years I’ve live here. Perhaps you’re referring to some time around WWII, when, as you wrote, “executive jets as big as commercials, didn’t exist.”
Nice to know that SBA is a safe place to be. BUT, you can be actively sick with covid and get right on that airplane and potentially infect a plane-load of passengers. So go ahead. Feel free to fly to Florida and go to Disney World or Atlantic City and party at the casinos or play a round of golf at one of Trump’s resorts.
But not the ones in Europe or UK because Americans are not allowed to fly there. Almost every friggin country in the world has intense travel restrictions except the good ‘ole USA. Our covid repsonse is an international joke. And it’s not funny.
It’s a great blessing to those of us that live within 10 miles of the airport to have the sudden and profound decrease in air traffic since March. With over 200 private jets and at least 7 airlines, the traffic was becoming obnoxious, Hope that folks will decide on more environmentally sound ways of travel in the future. Less noise, exhaust pollution and intrusive wake up at 6 am flights will make this a better place to live. And don’t respond saying, “you knew when you moved there” because just a few years ago it wasn’t obnoxious and overbearing. Just a few years ago only United went in and out a few times a day, and the executive jets, some as big as the commercials, didn’t exist.