On the heels of a September 2023 trip to China where former Mobile Airport Authority (MAA) president Chris Curry joined executives with Continental Aerospace Technologies, airport officials moved to beef up oversight on travel and the executive position.
Curry’s trip to visit the Chinese-owned company was soon followed by Continental reaching out via a letter to MAA to express interest in purchasing airport-owned property — something that would likely have been illegal under new state laws. While the Airport Authority never formally responded to Continental’s overtures, the timing of Curry’s trip, the subsequent changes in Airport Authority travel policies and, ultimately, Curry’s abrupt departure right after those changes were codified have raised eyebrows.
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Former Mobile Airport Authority president Chris Curry is pictured during a grand re-opening of the Mobile International Airport in downtown in October 2021. (Photo by the Mobile Regional Airport via Facebook)
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Former Mobile Airport Authority president Chris Curry (left) is shown in an October 2019 video touring Continental Aerospace's facility at the Mobile Brookley Aeroplex (Screengrab via Clayco )
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Mobile’s now-closed public housing developments, Thomas James Place and R.V. Taylor Plaza, which were purchased by the Mobile Airport Authority in July 2024.
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