Burbank Airport
Reader Zanville S. Green’s letter (April 11) disagreeing with your editorial supporting the Burbank Airport’s much-needed new terminal, admits the economic benefits, but glosses over them far too quickly. I too live in the Studio City area and do not object to Green’s so-called noise problem. Automobiles and motorcycles create considerably more noise problems than the Burbank Airport ever will.
In addition to the several thousand jobs that would be involved in construction of a new terminal building over three to four years, the airport is also a most convenient gateway for several hundred thousand visitors and conventioneers each year; it helps provide much-needed dollars for this area’s largest surviving industries: tourism and the hotel business.
Also important are the thousands of large and small businesses in Los Angeles County whose people must travel throughout the West and who are headquartered here because travel is most convenient using the easy to reach and easy to use Burbank Airport.
The Burbank Airport is too important a job-creation and job-retention engine to be turned into an emotional or political football. What would happen to the San Fernando Valley’s economy if the Burbank air terminal were shut down?
LES BENSON, President
Southern California Business Assn.
Los Angeles
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