Hoo Boy. This past week was a doozy. The County’s Campaign of Disinformation begins…..
During last Thursday’s bimonthly Palomar Airport Advisory Committee (PAAC) meeting, the County dropped two big ones on us.
First, Palomar Airport is bleeding money by any normal standards. Its expenses exceeded its revenues last year by $3.8 million. But don’t worry, there’s some magic County fund, which when asked by the public for details, the County wouldn’t disclose or explain. The County claims it can “pull from” this “fund” to make up the losses so Palomar Airport “doesn’t really lose money”. Apparently this unique accounting has been going on for years…..
Secondly, surprise, surprise…the County is now claiming that since they started shoehorning a commercial jet that is TOO LARGE for Palomar Airport, that Palomar airport would be “safer” if it was expanded. As both the City of Carlsbad and C4FA claimed in our public comments, the County is planning to create a “safety issue” of their own making, using that safety issue as an excuse to bypass the Court ordered process, to try and expand Palomar Airport. We’ve heard this one before. This time, however, AA is in the picture.
