Reopen Meigs

[FightingIrish]

Here are some things we all can do. Together we can make a difference. What Mayor Daley did is reprehensible. Here are some links. Get involved and pass these to other people. If your AOPA or EAA membership has expired - renew it. If you aren't a member of AOPA or EAA, please join and get at least one other person to join. Lets not let this dictator get away with this!

Send a message to the mayor:

mailto:[email protected]
http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Mayor/mayorfeedback.html

Send a message to the governor:

mailto:[email protected]

Take part in the poll:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-030331meigs,0,7637649.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Sign the petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/q9851026/petition.html

Join AOPA:

http://www.aopa.org

Join EAA:

http://www.eaa.org/

 

[ShawnC]

Just renewed my EAA/IAC membership. Also would like to mentioned Friends of Meigs.

http://www.friendsofmeigs.org/

 

[FightingIrish]

Thanks Shawn!

I also left out

http://www.meigsaction.net/

Lets give Daley hell!

 

[PRO AV8R]

Everyone should at the very least sign the petition.

 

[LearLove]

Signed it.

EAA and AOPA member for the last 10+ years.

I urge everyone here to sign the petition. It takes 1 minute. After you sign make a short post here of anything to keep the thread at the top so everyone sees it.

 

[Geronimo]

I just signed the petition and am about to renew my AOPA membership. Although I have never been to Meigs, I had always hoped to fly there one day. Maybe there is still some hope.

 

[Swass]

#431

I was #431 signing the petition, we need more than that.

 

[Palerider957]

Why are these F@#*in mayors so hell bent to close down town airports. I'm from Cleveleand and the mayors their have always talked about closing Burke Lakefront. In Cleveland they wanted to close Burke to make room for more project homes!!!! Just what we need, more idiots eating tax dollars.

Can anyone tell me why they are gunning so hard to Meigs???

 

[T-Gates]

Petition signed, Letters Sent, AOPA membership still good.

Number 434 on the petition. Keep em' comin' boys.......


--03M

 

[T-Gates]

Why are these F@#*in mayors so hell bent to close down town airports. I'm from Cleveleand and the mayors their have always talked about closing Burke Lakefront. In Cleveland they wanted to close Burke to make room for more project homes!!!! Just what we need, more idiots eating tax dollars.

Can anyone tell me why they are gunning so hard to Meigs???

Daley sees (or saw...) Meigs as a threat to the security of Downtown Chicago. He seems to think that he can avert another 9/11 by closing Meigs. He is a very disillusioned soul.....

--03M

 

[Palerider957]

Daley--what a fuc.kin moron..........if 9/11 worries were really the case, DCA would NEVER have reopened!!!!!!!! But there DCA is with hundreds of flights a day

 

[ShawnC]

Any of your guys fly charters or corp flights that went into Meigs, ask your passengers if they enjoyed the convience of CGX, if they say yes tell them what happened, give them the web address of the petition, and the address to complain to the mayor.

In the end the people that get hurt the most by closing an airport are those people that use it to come to the destination.

 

[rightrudder]

I flew over Meigs a couple of times yesterday going in and out of ORD. You can see the damage from the air very clearly. What a shame. Daley has been trying to shut down the airport for years now, and used the ruse of "security" as an excuse to finally accomplish it. I wonder what the Feds think of this?

 

[Ravengirl]

#453.

This is completely F*$@##$@ed up.

Stephanie

 

[FightingIrish]

Meigs POWs to depart today

City of Chicago suddenly tears up the Meigs
Field runway, stranding some 16 aircraft.
AOPA photos by Mark Schaible.

Apr. 2 — Most of the pilots who were trapped by Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's midnight raid to destroy Merrill C. Meigs Field plan to make their escape today.

Meanwhile, the timing of the closure is looking even more suspicious. According to a report published in this morning's Chicago Tribune, airport workers were instructed by their city bosses to secretly count the number and note the size and type of aircraft parked at the airport each night last week. According to the Tribune report, "That may have been to help ensure that there were no larger private planes, such as a King Air business jet [sic], stuck on the field when six giant 'X' marks were carved into the runway using construction equipment."

"The depths of Daley's conniving continue to astound me," said AOPA President Phil Boyer. "Has the man no shame?"

AOPA spent most of the day yesterday, acting as a conduit between all the different factions, helping pilots with aircraft performance data the FAA and city aviation officials wanted, and making sure all parties had the latest accurate information.

The FAA has issued a local notam that authorizes the use of the 3,100-foot taxiway at Meigs as a runway for departures only.

Most of the 16 trapped pilots attended a briefing on departure procedures this morning and are expected to depart as soon as possible. City aviation officials and the FAA have been unable to contact the pilots of the remaining aircraft to inform them of the departure plan and are expected to make arrangements for their departure as they are contacted.

03-2-008x

 

[FightingIrish]

Here is a second petition!

http://www.petitiononline.com/meigs/petition.html

Let's keep AOPA and EAA phones ringing with new members/renewals.

 

[canadflyau]

sig #484 and #57

 

[gopherflight]

Never been to Meigs, but I'm curious: Was there and FBO on the field that now has been forced out of business?

 

[T-Gates]

The FBO on the field was a Signature. I think there was a City FBO as well.

--03M

 

[jergar999]

Even beyond the pilot issue here, there is a much larger one regarding the abuse of power that took place. I can't believe there aren't more outraged voters. Oh yeah, a park, on real estate that prime? I'm seeing some high rises and a new pier in the near future. If the FAA would go after this as hard as they go after pilots for little things like address changes maybe Daley can spend some time in jail, or at least pay some fines.