Lets think about this:
Second-tier Carriers:
TransMeridian: out of business
Hooters Air: out of business
USA3000: potential
Spirit: decided to fly out of Boston, would they consider ORH? Doubtful.
Sun Country: mid-West carrier
Discount Carriers:
SouthWest: no way (Manchester/Providence)
Airtran: no way
JetBlue: couple of the 10 Boston-JFK shuttles toORH?
Start-ups:
DJ Air: are they officially dead?
Skybus:
Festival Airlines:
VLJ's:
Linnear Air: we should talk to them based out of Hanscom
POGO: have not flown one flight
Charter Carriers:
Companies like FunJet, Vacation Express, Apple Vacations etc that book vacations.
Regional Carrier:
Cape Air
Bottom line is that there are no a whole lot of options for ORH, although we should aggressively pursue USA3000, Cape Air, a charter and Linear Air. Whats left??? Legacy Carriers... No Legacy Carrier is going to come in here with a direct flight. We need to convince a Legacy carrier through one of their "connections", like Delta through Mesa, to get a shuttle flight to one of their hubs.
Same Time Next Year
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It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about the problems that come from
having 11 bosses who are not on the same page about anything, as well as
suggestion...
4 months ago
15 comments:
Bill, 7 posts today ! Wow! Darn those rained out weekends {g}
interesting article from the Wall Street Journal today about the majors/legacy carriers bouncing back.
Basically they're streamling. Sticking with what's profitable and eliminating what is not profitable.
If a legacy carrier is to start ops at ORH with one of their connectors , we need to ask the same question the major carriers did. "what works at ORH and what doesn't. Airlines left pre 9/11, the airport thrived in the late 80's w/out an access road.
There needs to be multiple sources of revenue from airlines,air charter ops, General aviation and the business's to support them.
Dan:
I believe, could be wrong, that that the loads when Delta (ASA)Connection was flying ORH-Atlanta were pretty good. It was more financial troubles with ASA that stopped the flights, ASA has since been bought by SkyWest. Again I have heard that second-hand..
Dan I agree, just like any business there needs to multiple sources of revenues and all avenues need to be pursued.
I've read the Wall Street article.
If passenger loads are good, then there are other reasons for an airline leaving. Airlines are streamlining now. Airlines are becoming more selective and leaner nowadays.
The days of overcharging airlines for services are over.
I wouldn't be surprised if Allegiant eventually goes to Hanscom. Success breeds success in good times and bad times
Hanscoom has a 60 set limit. Allegiant can't go there.
Steve:
I agree high loads with high expenses are no good.. Right now we should be able to offer low overhead for a company to come into Worcester utilizing any monies left in the Small Community Air Service Grant.
If we can put together a package, which has little risk (low overhead), I can see a Delta Connection, like Mesa, seriously take a chance on ORH. At that point it would be up to us to put passengers in the seats.
Bill
Steve:
We need to be aggressive. Invite Mesa Air reps to Worcester and show them around. Maybe start an e-mail or letter campaign, where people can e-mail Mesa asking them to come to ORH.
We should not paying a consultant, monies that could be used to help entice Mesa, to be doing our work. For the life of me I can not understand why we have hired an outside consultant (IMG) to brin commercial service to ORH. As far as I can tell they do not even have a track history. More importantly we (the City Admin, the Airport Admin and the people of Worcester) should be selling ORH to an airline, not a consultant.
Bill
Delta makes the network decisions for Freedom Air, not Mesa. Mesa just operates the planes.
Anonymous:
I called Mesa out in Arizona and found that out already..
Thanks
Bill
As always, I have to through out Virgin American as a possible carrier. Also do not overlook discount Canadian carriers as well.
Harry Tembenis
Worcester, Ma
Harry:
Think I read something about the status of ORH not being able to handle Canadian Carriers. You are right about Virgin and also why not Easy Jet.
Bill
What is easyJet (aside from the highly successful London-Luton LCC)?
Anonymous:
Harry is thinking ahead.... Now that there is Virgin Atlantic, who knows maybe an EasyJet may want to come to the US also??? Who knows, but why not try it???
Maybe we should spend another $50,000 on IMG and see what they think.
Bill
Why can't ORH handle Canadien carriers? Especially just the short flights to Toronto, Montreal and Nova Scotia.
Uh oh, anonymous Canadians looking for cheap tickets! Who are you, anonymous? Pierre, trying to get back home?? Will trade good Canadian beer for ticket home!
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