Things are heating up at the Vero Beach Airport – literally – as crowds of passengers wait in the Florida sun to board more than 400 flights leaving the airport this month, now that two additional commercial carriers have joined Breeze Airlines in offering service into and out of Vero Beach.
Commercial air traffic has exploded at the airport because flights from Vero to destinations in the Northeast have proved wildly popular with island snowbirds, but the added air traffic creates a matching demand for airport parking – which is in short supply.
City Council members took a step toward improving the situation when they voted last week to lease airport property to a private parking lot developer, instead of constructing and operating paid parking lots themselves…