Master Plan

Lets just say, for arguements sake, that the Master Plan from Leigh Fisher, or should I say Jabobs Consulting says that we should keep the Part 139 Certification and follow the Medium Growth Scenario as outlined in their last meeting. This scenario depicted passenger counts as follows:

• 159,954 by the Year 2010
• 213,212 by the Year 2015
• 284,204 by the Year 2020

Jcobs Consulting can then site the final results from the NERASP (http://www.nerasp.com) and the fact IMG "debunked" the idea to downgrade to General Aviation as back-up. Then they can add that we should improve runways, runway safety areas, further upgrade landing systems and add new hangars, again utilizing the results from the New Regional Air Study Plan and IMG.

Once all of this is done and all three studies are patting each other on the back for a job well-done and the Editorial Board from the Telegram lauds the efforts of everyone involved--then what?

ORH will still have no passenger service and be losing $200,000 per month.