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Is the Santa Barbara Airport closed? I didn’t hear a plane at all on Wednesday.
Is the Airport Closed?
Anonymous
April 2, 2020, 10:00 am
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If we’re closing schools, parks, etc, then for sure air travel should cease. It is 100% impossible to fly in a plane with others and practice social distancing. If you need to travel home, you should already be there. For those that absolutely need to travel, there should be maybe 1 flight a day or something other than continuing with air travel as usual.
They are open for essential travel
PUINSAI – I don’t know, just spitballing… Why so many people disagreeing with closing the airport/limiting flights? I mean, we’re taking off basketball nets, closing parks, beaches, schools and everything else, so why on earth are we not doing anything about jamming 10-100+ people into a small space within inches of each other to fly from city to city spreading the virus??? Answer me that, Mr. Cat!
If you read the SBA website you’ll see that total passengers flowing through the terminal is less than 200 per day. The average flight holds 78-150+ seats depending on the aircraft and I highly doubt we have that many people traveling on one plane. There is plenty of room to spread out plus what ever seating rules the airlines have since setup. Is it ideal? No. Should we limit flights to essential travel only? Yes.