Fire Lincoln airport head over Red Way failure [Video]

Nearly three months after Nebraska State Auditor Mike Foley called the startup Red Way airline “a failed riverboat gamble bankrolled by taxpayers,” a Lancaster County Commissioner has voiced — and penned — his displeasure.

County Commissioner Matt Schulte on Friday called for the Lincoln Airport Authority Board to fire Executive Director David Haring, a day after Haring presented a report at the County Board staff meeting.

Haring oversaw Red Way blowing through $3 million — $1.5 million each in American Rescue Plan Act funds from Lancaster County and the city of Lincoln — in less than three months last summer.

Someone should be held accountable, Schulte said.

“I believe that the Airport Authority (board) has the power to fire their director and they probably should fire their director for losing that much money,” Schulte said Friday. “… That’s what we would do in Lancaster County if somebody took $1.5 million from us and blew it on some other projects in …