Good news! Our manufactured airport crisis has been addressed.

All y’all just rest easy now. The city of San Antonio has a nifty new incentive plan and its eye on nonstop flights to Boston and Reagan National Airport. The city is even going to hire an “air service administrator” at $125,000 a year to grow air service at San Antonio International Airport. The ideal candidate will have “knowledge of presentation requirements and methods” plus “an ability to compile and prepare clear and concise reports.”

No joke. But what is a joke is this plan to “fix” the San Antonio Airport since it’s not really broken. City Councilman Joe Krier and Chamber of Commerce Chairman Henry Cisneros have whipped up a frenzy about our supposedly ailing airport. Cisneros has even called it our “Achilles heel.” Really? Because if we are talking about economic roadblocks, our schools tend to stand out.

“The reality is your air service is excellent,” said Mike Boyd, an aviation consultant in Colorado. “When you look at it, San Antonio has access to every single connecting airline hub in America. That’s the name of the game.”

It also is emerging as a strong connection to Mexico.

Boyd caught my attention this week when he was featured in a Texas Public Radio story about the incentives. On the air, he didn’t pull his punches, calling the city’s incentive plan “an amateur act.”

Ouch. Amateur, really?

“The problem is these guys don’t know the airline business,” he told me. “And they think, ‘There are lots of airlines out there, and we would get one to come here.’ No offense, but San Antonio is starting to look kind of foolish with this.”

Boyd’s concerns are really twofold. As part of its incentive package, the city is launching a 12-month landing fee waiver for new unserved routes. It’s also waiving terminal rentals, airfield fees and landing fees. But the airline business is so consolidated, cities don’t need to offer these blanket waivers. He calls this blind incentives. The city could just talk directly to the dominant carriers for its specific target markets.

“You want service to Boston, you go to Southwest and you go to JetBlue. Those are the only two airlines with any earthly interest in going to that market.”

George Hoffer, a transportation economist with the University of Richmond, offered a similar response.

“Would not JetBlue be the most likely candidate for Boston?” he wrote in an email. “Everyone treats Boston as a node. It has no super-dominant carrier. Since JetBlue uses it as a second hub, San Antonio as a destination would be of more value to them.”

Hoffer said incentives are a tool more often used by smaller cities, and they only work when the route works.

“Generally, cities which have tried this are not like San Antonio,” he said.

Boyd’s second concern is one of spin. Namely, the “Achilles heel” comment.

“That tells any business that wants to moves to San Antonio, ‘Hey, the Chamber of Commerce says they have got bad air service,’” he said. “This Austin envy has to stop, and you gotta start focusing on how really good the service is and build on it.”

The would mean focusing on which flights are totally booked from San Antonio, and then the connecting flights San Antonio residents board.

Before Krier and Cisneros created an airport crisis, before this obsession about “losing” 300,000 passengers to Austin, the city was celebrating a record year at the airport in 2014. Almost 8.4 million passengers were served.

And this year, our “Achilles heel” was up slightly in passenger count through September, per city reports. International passenger counts were up 15 percent, reflecting the strength of our connections to Mexico. We set a record for passengers in 2014, and we might just set a record for passengers this year, too.

Arthur Coulombe, chairman of the Air Service Development Task Force and general manager of JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa, said he heard Boyd’s criticisms, but the new incentives are just one tool among many.

“One of the symbols of a progressive, growing, flourishing city, this I hope you will quote, is the airport, and what it says about our confidence in our current growth toward becoming an ever bigger economic presence in Central Texas,” he said.

The implication was these incentives will lead to bigger and better things. But this manufactured crisis suggests a lack of confidence.

Desperate times call for desperate measures — even after record years.