The FAA has ordered Santa Monica to halt the evictions of two aviation companies at its municipal airport until the agency can finish an investigation into the city’s effort to shut down the facility, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
The report notes that the FAA issued an interim cease-and-desist order to stop the ouster of Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers, two FBOs at the embattled field, which the city has been trying to close for years.
This is true for other public grant airports such as KAWO in Arlington, Washington that are building a business park instead of a regional airport.
Let’s cut to the chase! The FAA needs to invoke eminent domain and seize SMO for the public good and get this BS over with now!
Yes, I agree with you there. When I lived in the midwest ole Mayor Daley of Chicago closed the Meigs Field on the lake front. Then after taking more federal funds, sent at night a barrage of equipment and cut large X’s into the runway and taxiways. In defiance of the FAA decision to keep that airport open.