Airports San Diego

Opposition to a new airport at El Toro continues to grow in Orange County, boosting the chances for approval of an anti-airport measure by voters next month, according to a Los Angeles Times-commissioned poll. The election March 5 marks the fourth time county voters will be asked to decide the airport issue. Measure W would rescind the airport's approval by voters in 1994 and rezone the 4,700-acre base to public parkland and other development.

By Super Bowl Sunday, crosswind runway 13/31 at Lindbergh Field should look like "an expensive used car lot," according to Jack Barkley, director of operations for Jimsair Aviation Services. Instead of used cars, the usually little-used runway will be filled with as many as 300 luxuriously appointed corporate and private jets that will be carrying VIP passengers into San Diego for the NFL title game, according to Barkley, whose company services private and commercial aircraft at Lindbergh.