UPDATE: Just a few days after word came that PenAir was pulling out of Humboldt, the airline announced today that the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and is looking to end its Crescent City flights. Humboldt County will be back down to one airline option at the end of the day while […]
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PenAir Scales Back But Remains Confident in Portland Route
PenAir recently reduced the number of daily flights from the Arcata-Eureka Airport to Portland from three flights to two, but insists the change isn’t related to passenger interest in the route. Missy Roberts, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing, said the changes will affect everyone looking to fly with PenAir. She said the […]
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Inside the Portland Flights Deal
Humboldt County has a kinship with Portland, what with our shared interests in food, drink, marijuana, arts, neo-lumber fashion and keepin’ it weird. So PenAir’s announcement that it would be offering service from the Redwood Coast Airport (nee the Arcata-Eureka Airport) was met with palpable excitement. Portland is a hip alternative to San Francisco for […]
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Airport Adds Service to Portland
Come April, folks looking to get out of Humboldt County will have a new option: direct air service to Portland. Pen Air, a regional airline based in Alaska, announced via press release that it will soon be adding two daily flights between Portland and Arcata/Eureka, err, the California Redwood Coast – Humboldt County Airport. The […]
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UPDATE: The Dogs Are Alright, Eureka City Budget Passed
UPDATE: Suzie Owsley is going through old files at the Problem Oriented Policing office in Eureka, organizing for whoever steps in once she and the rest of the team move on. Owsley is one of eight police services officers with the Eureka Police Department whose position was eliminated in sweeping budget cuts passed by the […]
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Measure Z Payouts Include Airport Tree Cutting, After All
The aviation division’s gonna get some of that sweet, sweet Measure Z cashola. In its Tuesday meeting, the Board of Supervisors bypassed the Measure Z Committee’s recommendations and awarded the division, a branch of county public works, nearly $80,000 for tree trimming. The aviation division requested the funds in order to remain in compliance with […]
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Grand Jury: Separate Aviation from Public Works
The Humboldt County grand jury just released the results of an investigation into the county’s beleaguered Aviation Division and the six airports it manages. As you may recall, the Aviation Division is in dire financial straits, expected to end this fiscal year nearly $1 million in the hole and with an ongoing structural deficit in […]
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Airport Updater: Loans, Z rejection, Portland, and a bigger jet
The county’s Aviation Division is likely to receive some temporary financial relief in the form of an intra-county loan, should the division’s dwindling trust funds be unable to support an ongoing structural deficit. As the Journal reported in March, the division was facing a fiscal year-end deficit of more than $800,000. The aviation enterprise fund […]
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No Silver Lining
Bad news for Humboldt’s hungry jet set: Silver Lining, the restaurant located upstairs in the Eureka-Arcata airport, has closed. Aviation Division Program Manager Emily Jacobs said when she arrived at work yesterday morning, the restaurant hadn’t opened its doors. The owners told Jacobs they simply couldn’t make it work anymore. It’s another ding for the […]
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Carless? Portland-bound? Bring a Pillow.
This is amazing/vexing. Journal homie Jonathan Webster put together this graphic (with inspiration from John Chernoff) illustrating the difficulties of traveling north from behind the Redwood Curtain without a car. Unless you’ve got a good amount of cash, you’re looking at 20 hours of travel minimum. You could watch every episode of Portlandia twice in […]