VERO BEACH, Florida — The Vero Beach Regional Airport Commission wants to kick out the one airline that operates at KVRB. It also has recommended to the city council to end all airline flights at the airport.
The city council will take up the recommendation at its Jan. 21, 2020, meeting, according to a report at TCPalm.com.
According to the report, the airport is at risk of losing $750,000 to $1 million a year in grants, based on projects in the city’s five-year plan after being reclassified from a general aviation airport to a commercial airport.
I’m sure they thought they were gonna cut a fat hog by having “scheduled airline service” into their town.
Maybe when city managers and city councils and aviation boards, commissions and authorities and airport managers quit spitting in the face of GA and start treating their airports at least as good as they treat their parks and libraries they can infuse general aviation AND their city’s budgets with some prosperity.