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Editor's note: It gets frustrating watching developments at ORH, but we must say we agree with these comments
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These comments are laughable. (Except for Rusty who’s the only person with a logical head on his shoulders). Why is there this mindset that Massport decides what airlines fly and where they fly to and how much they charge? If massport didn’t care, why have they spent the millions they’ve dumped into the airport already?
The reason why Worcester is not like PVD, BDL, MHT, Pease is because the City Fathers had the wear with all to invest in those airports decades ago. Worcester has a lot of catching up to do to get even close to those others.
The funniest line was why massport didn’t do the runway during Covid! Projects like that are in a schedule and based on FAA funding approval. Unless someone at massport wants to do time at Levanworth, they can’t use their own funds from BOS. And for a project like this, you can’t pick up the phone and call David Letourneau at Pioneer paving and say, hey we need some asphalt.
FAA needs to approve their funding, the project needs to be designed and estimated, bids need to go out, contracts need to be awarded, and the work needs to be done during construction season. Another words, it takes a long time to do a project like this.
If you want to be mad at someone, how about the region’s businesses who cried that they need flights to business markets and not just one a day. Where are the Chambers who should be rallying the businesses instead of just showing up for photo ops. Last time I checked NYC is a pretty big business market. And last time I checked, there are 4 flights a day. So where is the business community now? Crickets.
I won’t blame the airlines if they say either we’ll leave entirely or just go to the less profitable leisure markets.
In Rusty we trust!
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It's been busy up at ORH this week but it's school vacation week. In a couple of weeks they'll be back to mediocre passenger numbers on the NYC flights. Take some of that $250 million for the runway and promote the hell out of ORH. Incentivize another airline to come in here with nonstop flights to Florida. Seems like every airport in the region other than ORH is adding service. We want some of that at ORH.