"Stockton airport moves closer to international service"

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Stockton airport moves closer to international service
The Stockton (CA) Record 


Hopes to bring international flight service to Stockton Metropolitan Airport
revived this week as U.S. Customs officials reversed an earlier rejection of
plans for an inspection station at the airport terminal.

San Joaquin County officials, who oversee airport operations, hailed the
news.

"Where the door was locked and shut with duct tape around it, but now the
duct tape is off. The door is not open, but I see some light shining
through," county Supervisor Steve Guiterrez said today.

The county had drafted plans for a $2 million inspection station to
accommodate Aeromexico Airlines service to Guadalajara this fall, but was
stymied in May when U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in San
Francisco declined to authorize the facility.

Local legislators -- Reps. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, and Richard Pombo,
R-Tracy -- intervened, however, and CPB officials in Washington, D.C.,
recently said the project, with certain revisions, may go forward.

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