March 15, 2006

Hooters News Gets Worse

Looks like the service to Orlando is ending too.

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/14101760.htm

PITTSTON TWP. – Hooters Air service to Orlando could go the way of other Florida flights that were recently scratched. The charter carrier stopped service to Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg/Clearwater from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport last week.
Airport director Barry Centini said high fuel prices and dwindling riders have forced the Myrtle Beach, S.C., airline to cut back service.

Those flights were extras Hooters Air added to its main Florida service to Orlando. That service could be in jeopardy, too, and the airport may not be able to recover the $325,000 in federal and county funds used to secure an 11-month contract with the carrier.
Centini said he was not certain if the airport had a legal claim if the carrier cuts short the contract that runs through September. Repeated messages left with Mark Peterson, president of Hooters Air, have not been returned since Friday.

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