From:            CW
To:                Commission-Public-Records
Subject:           [EXTERNAL] Comments
Date:              Tuesday, July 28, 2020 8:59:58 AM

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Times Change. Growth is not the objective anymore. After Coronavirus, we know that we 
entered a new age. One that is not dependent on growth, but working together in community. 
(and the economy? Coming back? To what?)

Spending money on advertising and marketing to bring more flights and cruise ships to our 
region is our past not our future. Not even talking about pollution and impacts on neighboring 
communities, the economy tanked. Fewer people will have money to travel for pleasure or for 
business. This is a new age. Cruise Ships are selling their vessels.

Growing up in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, I watched and lived through Southwest Airline's 
rise to the top and looking back, it's not a pretty picture. I don't want to continue subsidizing 
the airline industry and the pollution that it pours onto people and places. Upon moving to the 
Pacific Northwest, I'm told that Alaska Airline is the Southwest of the Northwest. They too 
are based on, mostly unnecessary, short flights which could easily be driven or use the internet 
conferencing software for meetings.

The marketing campaign for Southwest Airline competed with Greyhound and other bus lines 
for short travel. A four hour drive from Dallas to Houston only took an hour. (not so after 
9/11 when you arrive an hour early and screened carry on baggage). They dressed women in 
hot pants (short shorts) and advertised to the "business traveler" (mostly male) to travel for 
"peanuts" and they gave away free nuts.
Looking back, we see a small percentage of people traveling by air benefiting only a few yet 
impacting (use of taxpayer money on airport marketing,

Southwest Airline spent untold amounts of money lobbying to stay in the middle of a densely 
populated city since 1974. Restrictions were lifted and the Wright Amendment expired in 
2014 and Love Field saw drastic passenger growth and today is the 31st busiest airport in the 
US . In 2018, Love Field surpassed 8 million enplaned passengers for the first time.

Staying in San Diego at a conference center or at a friend's home in downtown Dallas, the 
smell of jet fuel filled my lungs and the sound of airplanes, one after the other, was unbearable 
. I was only there for a few days, it is unjustifiable to increase the level of noise and pollution


on surrounding communities.

I do not want SEATAC to grow, I want it to change and see fewer flights.

Apologies for a quick comment letter.

Charlotte Wells
4607 Holcomb St
Port Townsend, Wa 98368
baytime@mac.com
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same. 
And that's why life is hard.
Jeremy Goldberg