[CPEO-IRF] Williams Gateway Airport (AZ) name change

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Mesa airport name deal nears
Airline says service pact hinges on change; authority yet to vote

Art Thomason
The Arizona Republic
August 10, 2007

A name change for Mesa's Williams Gateway Airport appears to be a done 
deal even though a vote on the controversial proposal doesn't take place 
for another month.

Switching to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, which would remove Williams 
as a reference to the airport's historic military past, is part of an 
agreement between the airport and an airline that plans to start service 
from the airport to 13 markets.

"The agreement is predicated on the name change," Tyri Squyres, 
spokeswoman for Allegiant Air LLC, said Thursday. "The airport made the 
suggestion of the name and all we had requested is that Phoenix be in 
it. We're confident that the airport authority can make changes to make 
this successful."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0810namechange0810.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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