CITY, AIRPORT CLASH GETS LOUDER; BURBANK SAYS PLANE NOISE FIGURES INACCURATE.Byline: Lee Condon Condon is a surname that originated in Ireland. The name is derived from a French surname de Caunteton, which came to Ireland with Norman settlers in the 12th century AD. In Irish the surname is Condún. Daily News Staff Writer City officials plan to escalate es·ca·late v. es·ca·lat·ed, es·ca·lat·ing, es·ca·lates v.tr. To increase, enlarge, or intensify: escalated the hostilities in the Persian Gulf. v.intr. their public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most war with Burbank Airport today, claiming commercial airlines are extensively using noisy Noisy is the name or part of the name of six communes of France:
Burbank Mayor David Golonski, at a City Hall news conference this morning, is expected to release new data that show that the Airport Authority has been ``misrepresenting its record on flights at Burbank Airport, while claiming that the airport is one of the quietest airports in the country.'' City officials used airport daily operations logs to come up with a graph that shows between 25 and 225 of the noisier Stage 2 flights are being made from the airport every month. The city is expected to claim that airport officials lied when they have said the airport has a 100 percent quieter Stage 3 commercial fleet, sources said. Airport officials deny they have misrepresented the number of Stage 2 flights. The allegations about the Stage 2 ban are ``Phase 1'' of a new overall strategy created by the city's lawyers, Denver-based Cutler & Stanfield and their public relations consultant Winner & Associates, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. documents obtained by the Daily News. Peter Kirsch kirsch n. A colorless brandy made from the fermented juice of cherries. [French, short for German Kirschwasser; see kirschwasser. , the city's outside lawyer for the airport issue, declined to comment on the memos. ``I never comment on confidential memos. You're asking me to talk about my strategy,'' Kirsch said. Airport officials said they were unimpressed by the city's planned attack. ``What they're doing here is trying to create an illusion Illusion See also Appearances, Deceiving. Barmecide feast imaginary feast served t0 beggar by prince. [Arab. Lit.: Arabian Nights, “The Barmecide’s Feast”] Emperor’s New Clothes by playing with the terminology,'' said airport spokesman Victor Gill gill, in weights and measures gill, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. after reviewing a copy of the city's Stage 2 graph which was obtained by the Daily News. By counting the Stage 3 flights on a monthly basis, city officials make it look like there's a large number of Stage 2 flights, which Gill said are only used locally as a backup when an airline has Stage 3 aircraft in for repairs. For October 1998, the graph shows there were 225 Stage 2 flights. But since there were 5,862 total flights, that means only 3.8 percent of the flights were Stage 2. October 1998 marked one of the highest months for Stage 2 flights. ``96.2 percent of that month's airline flights were Stage 3. I don't think that's inconsistent with us saying we're complying with Stage 3,'' Gill said. |
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