JWA can’t handle more flights John Wayne...

JWA can’t handle more flights

John Wayne Airport can’t handle the airlines and flights they

currently have. Are any airlines presently at John Wayne giving up

slots or gates? Fourteen aircraft spend 15 to 30 minutes waiting to

take off at 7 a.m. each morning except Sunday, when it’s 8 a.m.

Aircraft can spend as much as 20 minutes waiting for a gate to clear

at night while other aircraft get moved to remote parking.

John Wayne has inadequate taxiways for the volume of traffic it

presently has, not to mention gate space. Five more flights doesn’t

sound like much on the surface, but what goes on in the background

makes it huge. I truly wonder where the county is going to squeeze in

these flights and who is going to be inconvenienced by the addition

of these flights.

Maybe the Pilot should dig deeper into this story.

JOHN WARREN

Costa Mesa

Nichols not right as councilman

I don’t believe Dick Nichols is the right person to be the Corona

del Mar councilman. He’s not truly Greenlight. He seems to be stuck

in his thinking. His thinking does not reflect the thinking of the

whole of Corona del Mar except for maybe a block or two. He does not

represent Corona del Mar.

One example: He was against the preservation of the Port Theatre.

He wanted it moved to the Corona del Mar post office. Does that make

sense? And I think maybe we should try to limit him in another way.

VIRGINIA KEMPLER

Corona del Mar

Nichols apology is enough

Dick Nichols has apologized for his statement. By sanctioning him

in some way, it sounds like you are getting into that

“sous-mentality” that we have been talking about that gives Newport

Beach a bad reputation. The man apologized, that’s sufficient.

Let’s look at the Planning Commission and make sure they do give

honest and equal treatment to each resident rather than look to

sanction someone who questions their past decisions.

MARY LAVELLE

Corona del Mar