Lantana Airport has been closed for the third weekend in a row due to visits by President Trump to nearby Mar-a-Lago resort. The secret service shuts operations down for security reasons within a 10-mile radius of the Florida club while Trump is present. Small Lantana Airport is given little warning when visits will occur.
The closing of the airfield is wreaking havoc on the operations and revenues of the small businesses that use Lantana Airport. While the airport is only utilized by small propeller-driven planes and helicopters, the airfield is vital to the operation and financial success of several small businesses. One banner-flying company reports that it has already lost upward of $40,000 in potential revenue.
The closure of Lantana field has significant economic impacts on 28 businesses that employ 200 people. President Trump has been a major proponent of small businesses, but the security measures surrounding his visits to his favorite Florida vacation spot are having a significant negative impact on the small businesses at Lantana Airport. Hopefully a more balanced approach to security can be found that allows for the use of the airfield during presidential visits. Business owners and pilots at Lantana are open to negotiating a solution that allows them to operate while still meeting necessary security precautions.
Oddly enough, nearby Palm Beach International Airport is substantially closer to the Mar-a-Lago resort than the small Latana Airport, and it remains open during presidential visits. Typical security procedure requires the closure of airspace in a 10-mile radius around the resort while Trump is present, and PBI is a mere 2.5 miles from Mar-a-Lago.
H/T: Washington Post
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I fly small planes out of LNA. Great little airport, so sad this is happening.
Please this is ridiculous. Where was the outrage when Obama shut down O’hare on a Friday afternoon then closed the main road downtown for his motorcade so he could go have tea with Rham. It was only after so many complaints that he started to fly into Gary IN and shut that one down.
Just a sad excuse to knock the President, Washington Post Sucks, I thought this Blog was ok but no longer, crap post, and finally…keep it in your pants for gods sake
How come no report when Obama is causing all these traffic in los angeles when he comes here and drive around at 5 pm to go to his donations driven dinner or Tonight show, this is a travel blog and should continue to do so and leave politics to CNN and Fox news. Just my 2cents.
I don’t know, was Obama fundraising and snarling traffic in Los Angeles every weekend of his presidency? Did it cause a number of small businesses to suffer and eventually close?
That’s not every week a$$hole.
Guys – this is not a partisan issue so stop making it out to be one.
Donald Duck should go back to DC and start to do some governing rather than campaigning!
What a egotist and clown/moron of a president!
Donald the tyrant—-did you not read what Dan Miller wrote? You left coast and west coast people are so inconsiderate of others. The world does not revolve around you, snowflake.
Suck it up, be a man. There is a grownup in office now—not beholding to the NWO or the liberal media.
Nuff said? OK.
I’m pretty sure the only thing I said was that this was not a partisan issue and there was no need to politic this up – something it does not appear you read either….