City Center airport-turning into condos and apartments!!!??

[mikeesik]

Hello.
Where I live we are lucky enough to have an Airport so close to Down-Town.

It used to hold 737's up until 1989.
Now you are not allowed over 7-9 passenger planes.

This airport was a true destination and hub for WWII.

For reasons -financial- they wish to close this airport (gain) and clean it up and make Disney Land Neighborhoods out of it.

I am in absolute disagreement.

If you wish to get to Calgary from Edmonton here, (186 miles) it will take you a Drive from your residence at least 4 hours.
Flying pre- 1989. You could park for cheap at the airport and anywhere you lived you could get there in a half an hour.
You can board your plane in a half an hour and your off. You get to Calgary in about 20 minutes.

Now you have to drive to this pathetic wannabe 'World Hub' which is 30 minutes out of town. Parking is very expensive . Waiting times just to go less than 200 miles are ridiculous.

Edmonton -whoo-International Airport - is trying desperatly to be sophisticated and it could never be



I read this article in time magazine ages ago about -the jewel of having an airport in the city- I cannot find this.


What is your opinion if this was happening in your city?
Homestly, I like to say more, but I hate typing.

[onewhippedpuppy]

NIMBY. Nobody wants an airport near their house. There have been multiple threads on here about folks that moved in near an EXISTING airport, then complained about the associated airplane noise. That's part of the reason why large airports seem to be trending towards being just outside of a city instead of right in the middle of it, I fly through DIA (Denver) often and it is in the middle of nowhere. Of course the irony is that people that work at the airport want to live closer to work so they build houses, which turns into a town, which turns into a city, which starts to complain about airplane noise...........

There's a lot of ignorance about airports and their associated positive economic impact, many folks like to demonize them as rich doctors and businessmen flying off to vacation in the Bahamas. In truth they provide a significant economic benefit to a community.

I live under the flight path for our local AFB as well as a nearby airport with mostly general and business aviation traffic. I love watching the planes fly by, even if I can hear them inside of my house.

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." - Leonardo Da Vinci.

[Zeke]

The airport in Edmonton sounds like it's not up to international standards, so it became a regional airport. I don't know how airports are rated. We get 40 some odd commercial flights a day here, but no international service. We have a 10,000 ' runway and can take in the big stuff. We also have other operations that total out to about 200/day including commercial.


Seems to me you have to have revenue to keep an airport open. I don't see how a place like Santa Monica can stay open. The land has to be worth a fortune.

The same may exist in Edmonton.