- Allegiant needs to be successful at ORH. Things like free wifi, restaurant, free parking and more advertising by Allegiant needs to happen. By the way so far the only advertising anyone has seen the past week are the signs in the malls.
- Two other airlines need to be recruited now. Hooters flights to Myrtle Beach would be perfect even just for their golf season and USA3000 to other destinations in Florida and Bermuda.
- For the summer a Cape Air or Linear needs to be providing scheduled service to the islands.
By July 1, 2007, the future of ORH will be known to all. If we only still have Allegiant 6 months from now it will be pretty tough to justify to me the need for 4 flights per week to Orlando at a cost of $2,000,000 per year to the tax-payers.
4 comments:
I think landing three airlines in 6 months is not going to happen.
We should target one or two new airlines and try to obtain additional service from Allegiant.
Three new airlines in that short time period is too ambitious.
Yes and no... Truth is that it may be overly ambitous but right now we need to be overly ambitious to keep the airport open. This is do or die time.
If six months from now, we have only Allegiant and we are trying to get MassPort to extend the current operating agreement, I see them very easily saying fine but scale back to a General Aviation Airport. What I am trying to say is that I feel this needs to happen and six months is not that long...
We have the IMG report, we have identified the airlines --what else is there to do?? If we do not get them over the next six months, what makes anyone think it will happen after that..
Look at Youngtown, they have no airlines and expect to announce two airlines. The next six months we need this to happen.
Bill,
I have been following this blog for the past few months. I was extremly excited to see commercial service find its way back to Worcester thru Allegiant.
I agree that the airport needs dining services and advertisement.
Most importantly, I feel that Free Parking would make a huge impact on the future of ORH.
I believe the above should take priority over Wi-fi for the time being.
Also it would be wise to look for a carrier to fill in a Worcester-New York route as you will find it is a high frequency route out of Logan.
Mike R:
JetBlue is either flying 8 or 10 shuttles per day from Boston-ORH with their new Embraer 190. I was hoping that we could try and divert a couple of these flights to ORH.
Bill
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