A thin, wispy contrail overhead and the nearby rumbling of plane engines served as a backdrop for Saturday’s protest against the Santa Monica Airport. About 300 people from surrounding
Santa Monica and west Los Angeles residents who booked upcoming chartered flights to Carlsbad, San Jose and Vegas from SMO will be getting their money back. With news the runway
Disgust with the council
Editor’s note: The following commentary was submitted before City Hall announced a settlement to close the airport.
I read with interest the Ssutu family’s
The City of Santa Monica has negotiated the authority to close the Santa Monica Airport on Dec. 31, 2028.
At a special meeting on Jan. 28, the council announced a
Despite the City’s intensifying legal fight to evict airline operators and effectively shut down Santa Monica Airport, Alex Wilcox sees SMO as the perfect stop for his new private
Editor:
It is an abomination that the situation has so deteriorated at SMO that we are now faced with JetSuiteX beginning scheduled 30 passenger jet service on Feb. 6, just
By Kate Cagle
The City Council will talk about continuing efforts to turn the Santa Monica Airport into a park at next week’s public meeting.
City leaders will discuss
The City of Santa Monica is eliminated 73 aircraft tie-downs in a six-acre parcel of the Santa Monica airport as one of the first concrete actions in advance of expanding
BY MATTHEW HALL
The Federal Aviation Administration is demanding City Hall temporarily stop efforts to evict a pair of business from the Santa Monica Airport.
Among the City’s many
BY MATTHEW HALL
Santa Monica pursuing legal action to force a pair of airport businesses to vacate airport property.
The action follows some legal maneuvering by the businesses, the FAA
Nemo Insula Est
Editor:
Just about 4 centuries ago John Donne declared that we do not live our lives separate from each other unencumbered by mutual ties and obligations, mutual
SMO
Volunteer pilots fly 38 "Young Eagles" at Santa Monica Airport
Three times a year, the local chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA Chapter
#11) invites local