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Originally Posted by hacknow  Personally, I think TEB should be closed. At the very least, the Port Authority should be forced to provide local residents with a list of companies using the airport so that they can stop buying their goods and services. |
Before getting into such a charged debate with a first post, perhaps you should share your background and flying experience with TEB.
Based on the fact that TEB has 1 or 2 incursions a year and EWR has 7, maybe we should CLOSE EWR.
TEB has been open since 1917. I'm pretty confident that it was there before any of the "protesting neighbors." They can get over it or move.
As far as boycotting the users products, good luck with that. You might as well stop watching TV, stop listening to radio, ipod, and computers. Doesn't matter, because you will have to stop using electricity also. Then you will have to move outside the US, because the Government uses it too (as well as many foreign governments. If you can live in a tent South of the border you should be good.
If TEB were to close, all of the traffic is going to go EWR, LGA and JFK. None of which are capable of handling such a volume of corp traffic. It would require MASSIVE Federal and local funding to set up an infrastructure to handle the volume. Which in turn would cause further delay problems with the "airlines." Remember Continental fussing about the corp traffic when TEB was flooded out a few months ago? That was nothing.