Bill Sheets’ article of Dec. 17 mentioned four airports. Another airport to consider is the airport at Gary, Ind., which is about as far from Chicago as Paine Field is from Seattle. This airport successfully won Boeing Co.’s bid to house its corporate fleet. It also has a bright, attractive passenger terminal with three gates and free parking. What the airport lacks is commercial airline service. At different times, three airlines, Pan American, Hooters Air and South East Airlines have tried to provide commercial airline service and failed.
Hooters was a restaurant company and the Pan American brand was owned by a train company, Guilford Transportation Service. The airport manager said that these failures had less to do with Gary and more to do with the national problems of airlines. Is this what the business interests of Snohomish County have in mind for Paine Field?
As for providing more jobs, based on Mr. Sheets’ article, lawyers and contractors will benefit from commercial airline service. The lawyers will handle the many lawsuits concerning commercial airline service and the contractors will demolish homes or retrofit them to reduce resulting noise.
Grant Woodfield
Edmonds
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