I was just wondering if there have been any updates to the announcement back in 2020 of Delta suspending service to Santa Barbara Airport. I’d love to know if/when the airline is returning. —S.
Take it away, SBA Business Development Manager, Deanna Zachrisson:
Unquestionably, Delta intends to return to SBA. They have been very clear that this is their plan. When they pulled out in August 2020, they employed something of a “last in, first out” methodology in the L.A. basin, which we are considered part of. We were the last city to be added to Delta’s airports pre-pandemic.
The pinch point right now is pilot capacity. As you may be aware, they offered retirement packages to pilots during the pandemic, and now there are not enough pilots able to serve the regional routes. We had hoped that 2022 would be the year, but now our hopes are on the early summer of 2023. All tentative, of course.
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Previous Burning Questions:
••• Is the Music Academy of the West adding pedestrian gates?
••• Is the county really taking private property for trailhead parking?
••• Why does the Coast Village Road median look so bad?
••• Is Santa Barbara going to introduce residential compost bins?
••• When will Santa Barbara Junior High’s flagpole be replaced?
••• What’s the point of this light pole?
••• Why is the Hermosillo exit on the 101 closed?
••• Has Victor the Florist closed for good?
••• Why are the city’s parking lots scanning license plates?
••• What’s inside Paseo Nuevo’s State Street tower?
••• What’s the point of these markings on Laguna Street?
••• Why is there a giant red shoe off Highway 101?
••• Will the Dorinda Triangle ever get beautified?
••• Are we no longer allowed on the SBHS baseball field?
••• What does “SBTP” on this post mean?
••• What’s up with the “no e-bike” signs on local trails?
••• Why is Franceschi House in a holding pattern?
••• Why is there a train station inside this State Street storefront?
••• What’s happening with this derelict house in Summerland?
••• Is there a story behind Lucky Penny’s bell?
••• Why is there wood on some power lines?
••• Can you explain how sundowner winds work?
••• Why is there a pressure cooker attached to this utility pole?
••• What’s this concrete ramp thing on East Beach?
••• Why does “USA” get written on the street?
••• What are those poles in the ocean near the Ritz-Carlton Bacara?
••• Are people really allowed to set fires in the middle of Montecito?
••• What’s the story with the half-finished lot next to the Montecito Country Mart?
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