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Orange County picks new airport operator amid fuel-price hiking allegations
Supervisors said they awarded the contract to California-based ACI Jet rather than longstanding operator Signature Flight Support to spur competition. That decision follows allegations from some airport tenants in the past year that Signature and the airport’s other contractor, Atlantic Aviation, simultaneously and artificially inflated their fuel prices, frequently within pennies of each other. Atlantic retained its contract Tuesday. (www.ocregister.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Another source. Sounds like there were a few things going on. No surprise.
Neither Atlantic nor Signature has ever offered Maintenance or Charter services, they only sold fuel. Despite this they scored dramatically higher than applicants that offered both in-house.The fuel they sold was priced ~1.50 more per gallon than the fuel sold at Long Beach Airport just a few miles away, including by a Signature branded facility. This reduced the County's revenues from fuel flow fees, and caused local operators to base their in some cases $50,000,000 aircraft out of Orange County.
This deprived the County of millions in property tax revenue, as did Staff's repeated delays in offering both facilities for competitive bidding. Justice was done for the taxpayers, and for general aviation.
This deprived the County of millions in property tax revenue, as did Staff's repeated delays in offering both facilities for competitive bidding. Justice was done for the taxpayers, and for general aviation.
Leases expired mid 2014. Staff directed to increase rent never followed thru.
It sounds like a sweetheart deal with possible County staff collusion.
Civil, but is it service?
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fuel-741992-signature-county.html
It sounds like a sweetheart deal with possible County staff collusion.
Civil, but is it service?
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fuel-741992-signature-county.html
greed
Do you mean on the part of the old FBO, new FBO or both?
Another source. Sounds like there were a few things going on. No surprise.
http://mynewsla.com/orange-county/2017/01/25/john-wayne-airport-uproar-oc-supervisors-make-big-change/
http://mynewsla.com/orange-county/2017/01/25/john-wayne-airport-uproar-oc-supervisors-make-big-change/