There is/was a requirement that if you closed an airport you were liable =
for all FAA Airport Improvement funds (normally 90% of any project). =
This covered the last 20 years. Each time the airport accepted the =
money it automatically renewed all other grants..=20
Not to many airport owners could afford that type of an expense. Then =
they would have to apply for new grants to upgrade the other airport.
Al
----- Original Message -----=20
From: www.joepries.com=20
To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU=20
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: Close down SJU? -no
i spent several days working in sju last winter and they are investing =
major FAA funds to update the taxiways to ICAO standards (like taxiways =
that read C14, C15, C16 etc etc)- any talk of them closing the place =
down are unfounded and rediculous- though i will admit they have some =
issues with iguanas roaming the rwys in the morning- a major issue down =
there which does cause delays.
DENNMASS@aol.com wrote: In the latest of airport thrashings, a major =
newspaper in PR brought up the
issue of closing down SJU after a small plane crashed on the 15th in a =
San
Juan suburb. The article from El Nuevo Dia mentioned the possibility =
of
establishing the international airport at the old SAC base at =
Borinquen (BQN)
(fmr Ramey AFB). I personally think nothing will come from this, but =
it just
kills me that people develop and move close to airports only to bitch =
and
whine about the airport's proximity, specially when an inevitable =
expansion
is needed. (FLL is going through that now, MIA for years, even a gen =
av field
in Broward Cnty after a light plane went down in a nearby =
neighborhood).
DM
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