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The Everett Herald announced Wednesday that Everett's Paine Field Airport had been authorized to operate commercial flights starting in March.
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According to the Herald, the Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Alaska Airlines to begin flights from Paine Field on March 4 and United Airlines on March 31.
There will be 24 daily departures from Paine combined between the two airlines. Alaska and United have begun accepting reservations for flights departing from Everett Airport last November.
This comes after Alaska initially intended to begin serving Everett on February 11th. However, the federal government's partial closure on immigration has pushed the airline to postpone this date.
The saga of Paine Field has been the source of many controversies. According to a recent FAA study, commercial flights at the airport would not be a problem for local residents, but residents did not agree.
"I came out with a decibel reader and only a normal jet plane rolls over 85 decibels," Krieger told Radio KIRO in October. Krueger is a resident of the area who lives two miles north of Paine Field and said her neighborhood was not included in the FAA impact report.
"Leaving these neighborhoods out of the study is particularly challenging," she added. For reference, 85 decibels is generally equivalent to the volume of a trash bin at one meter.
All of this happened after a long and long judicial saga that saw the city of Mukilteo challenge an FAA environmental approval in a federal court in 2016.
With the official stamp of approval from the FAA, this saga is drawing to a close.
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