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And it is never pleasant when you must step out into the rain and snow from the aircraft while when landing in Boise, Idaho, you can walk through a covered ramp. In 1955, slightly less than 400,000 passengers flew in and out of the Salt Lake Airport. By 1972, inthe figures had grown to 2,400,000 or a crease in less than twenty years. Similarly, air freight activities have grown at a rapid rate at the Airport. With the recent restructing of fares by a number of airlines, most Americans have chosen to fly rather than to take other modes of transportation. Consequently, the airlines are headed for their biggest profit years ever and this activity is reflected by the increased number of passengers found daily at all airports across the country, including the Salt Lake Airport. With air traffic increasingly within the reach of most Americans budgets, it has become a popular way to travel. Passenger loads in the past years have increased 20 percent over the flights previous year and charter and are up nearly 30 percent. The Salt Lake City Airport Authority is recommending the approval by Salt Lake City residents of a $42 million bond proposal. The proposition will be voted on May 23rd. If passed, the revenue bonds will be used to modernize the main terminal, improve the baggage handling facilities, include second story ramps with direct loading from the aircraft to the concourse, construction of a connector between the new terminal presently under construction and the existing terminal, improvement in the road system around the airport, more efficient refueling operations, and the addition of airport hangars. Unlike earlier bonds which were general obligation, this bond series would be revenue bonds. Revenue bonds, as most of you know, are paid for by revenues of the airport rather than by taxing the property of Salt Lake City residents. It is estimated that 70 percent of the revenue necessary to repay the bonds will come from the airlines who use the airport while another 30 percent will be derived from the concessionaires. Salt Lake City has definitely entered the jet age. Sometimes some of us who live in this valley forget that we are not in a cloistered environment. Rather, we have become a major hub of national trade and very definitely a regional center. The dramatic increase in passenger and freight loads at the Salt Lake Airport is not only due to tourism. Commercial traffic at the airport, just like commercial business at our hotels, still makes up the bulk of the business done in the Utah travel industry. To turn down the Citys $42 million revenue bond request would be a great step backward and serve little purpose. For if that were done, passenger traffic would continue to rise, the pressures on the existing faciltiy would continue to mount, and the ultimate result would be a crash program at some future date to modernize the faciltiy. All of us know that programs of that sort end up costing the taxpayer infinitely more money that had he planned ahead and met the demand as it was there. I for one believe the Salt Lake City International Airport needs modernization and the improvements arc comtemplatcd in the bond proposal. 1 think revenue bonds are a sensible way to go, and it appears that with the Citys excellent fiscal record those bonds should be easy to sell in the marketplace. I hope all of you who live within Salt Lake City will see fit to make it to the polls on May 23rd and cast a yes vote for the much needed r.pansion of the Airport. rffir ed ld |