September 29, 2006

IMG

I know that this is getting repetitive, but what can I tell you. The City of Worcester spends $100,000 on a study by IMG last year. Was it bad? No, it was actually a pretty good summary of where we stand, but I still do not see it being worth $100,000.

Since that time, we have used an additional $100,000 from the DOT Small Community Air Service Grant to retain IMG to help us recruit a commercial airline. How are they doing?? No idea.. Nothing!!! Evidently nobody on the airport commission even asks how IMG is doing either since there is never any mention in any of the Airport Board minutes???

IMG tell us that nobody wants to come to ORH and why. Fine by me, but nothing?? Exactly what have we gotten for $100,000??? Sorry for the frustration but watching Allegiant leaving no other city, except ORH, adding new destinations, like St Pete's, while we hear nothing from IMG as we lose $200,000 per month with 9 months left in our current operating agreement with MassPort makes it hard to keep the faith, like the Telegram editorial board urges us to do.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting article in this weeks September 28th Worcester Magazine on page 4 about Fuel prices at Worcester Airport.

Joe Gargery said...

Here's the ling:

http://www.worcestermag.com/archives/2006/09-28-06/city_desk.html