Cleveland GP airport in the news again

Advocates for improving access to Cleveland's lake shore have long suggested Burke Lakefront Airport could be closed and overflow traffic could move to other, smaller airports in the region.

But some airport experts suggest that it would make more sense to keep Burke and close Cuyahoga County Airport instead.

If the county airport were to replace Burke, it would probably need to add a runway, which would be difficult with neighborhoods that have grown around it in Willoughby Hills, Richmond Heights and Highland Heights.

If that were required, the outcry of neighbors would probably be even louder than what came out of Willoughby Hills recently when they learned one possibility of runway expansion was into that community.

It would be much easier, said former Burke Commissioner Mike Barth and others, to close Cuyahoga County Airport and let homes go up there, and move its operations to Burke, which already has the longer, wider runways.

Both airports could handle much more business. More at Cleveland Plain Dealer