Airports
NBAA Vows To Continue Fight for SMO
A Washington, D.C. court ruled that it cannot rule in a decision between the FAA and the City of Santa Monica over the fate of the airport.

After a court ruling last week that denied on procedural grounds NBAA’s petition to overturn an agreement between the FAA and the city of Santa Monica, the organization said the effort to keep Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO) will continue. NBAA had urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to vacate the January 2017 settlement that allows the city to curtail aviation operations at SMO and gives it the option to close the airport entirely in late 2028.