{"id":44694,"date":"2025-11-25T23:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44694\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:37:04","slug":"wilkes-barre-scranton-international-airport-head-beardsley-takes-sabbatical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44694\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport head Beardsley takes sabbatical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport Executive Director Carl Beardsley Jr. has taken a sabbatical leave, an airport co-solicitor said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s taken a sabbatical and I really can\u2019t discuss personnel and health issues,\u201d attorney Don Frederickson said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach Beardsley, 56, a Lackawanna County resident, were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not trying to get rid of him or anything like that,\u201d Frederickson said. \u201cThey like Carl. The intent is he\u2019s going to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frederickson said he informed the staff of the leave on Monday. Assistant executive director B.J. Teichman will run the airport in Beardsley\u2019s absence, Frederickson said.<\/p>\n<p>Beardsley replaced 25-year director Barry Centini in January 2015 and led the airport to record-breaking departure numbers. From August 2018 until February 2020, the airport broke monthly departure records in 17 of 19 months. The streak ended in March 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, 296,632 boarded commercial airlines from the airport, still its annual record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport Executive Director Carl Beardsley Jr. has taken a sabbatical leave, an airport co-solicitor said Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-44694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}