Santa Monica Lawsuit

[MyassisDragon]

Wonder if we are going to see another Richard Daley airport closure in the future

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/...ge-dismisses-Santa-Monica-suit.aspx?CMP=ADV:1

To bad the united states didn't get default possession to Meigs field if the city decided to close the airport. Of course chicago did build the island in the 1920s so I guess it was theirs to begin with. I know different story but similar battle.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Wonder if we are going to see another Richard Daley airport closure in the future

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/...ge-dismisses-Santa-Monica-suit.aspx?CMP=ADV:1

To bad the united states didn't get default possession to Meigs field if the city decided to close the airport. Of course chicago did build the island in the 1920s so I guess it was theirs to begin with. I know different story but similar battle.

With the subtitle "City will stop at nothing to close airport, AOPA ready for long fight" and quotes like "AOPA continues to work daily on strategies to defend and protect Santa Monica Municipal Airport," I was all set to congratulate the AOPA on their role in this till I realized they weren't involved in the litigation at all. The defendant was the U.S. government, the FAA specifically. At least in this case, AOPA is on the sideline and need not have spent a cent - and if they had it should not have made any difference.