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2nd suit filed in VNY noise dispute

XtraJet, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based charter firm, has become the second operator to be sued by the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners for alleged

By Mark Phelps

November 2, 2007

XtraJet, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based charter firm, has become the second operator to be sued by the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners for allegedly committing repeated violations of the noise restrictions at Van Nuys Airport (VNY). Earlier, the board filed a similar suit against charter operator Pacific Jet. The Pacific Jet case is awaiting assignment of a trial date. The legal actions come as part of the city’s crackdown of the so-called nonaddition rule, under which Stage 2 jets had to meet certain residency requirements to be grandfathered from a ban of operations at VNY.

Further, transient Stage 2 aircraft are limited to using the airport a maximum of 30 calendar days per year. The XtraJet lawsuit seeks more than $4 million in fines and asks that XtraJet be banned from using Van Nuys Airport for three years. But XtraJet says it has done nothing wrong.

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