(San Diego) County airport panel eyes cross-border pass with Mexico

County airport panel eyes cross-border pass with Mexico

By Jeff Ristine
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

February 3, 2007

What if an air traveler could drive to a terminal in Otay Mesa, walk onto a jet that taxis across the border, then take off on a flight from Tijuana International Airport?

It's the most audacious of four concepts for a tie-in to the Tijuana airport – a mere walkway from one side of the border to the other is another scenario – and the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority is willing to spend $385,000 to continue studying the notions.

But to keep the idea alive, the agency's board of directors said Thursday it needs some sign from Mexico that it won't become an exercise in futility.

The idea of a cross-border connection to Tijuana's airport faces so many political, legal and regulatory hurdles that board members said they want at least a letter of interest from the federal government in Mexico before they sink any money into a full-blown market demand study.

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