Today's Paper

In the business section it was reported that an unidentified tech company east of Worcester is close to a deal to base its Gulfstream jet at ORH. Looks to me that this will be the "major announcement" that we have been waiting for.

This is good news and this may be the direction that ORH needs to head, General Aviation, but not the major announcement that I had hoped for. Think we can all agree at this point that the loss of Allegiant was huge in relation to commercial air service. No other airline will be coming to ORH in the short-term (6-12 months). In other words we may have paid $100,000 to IMG,on top of the initial 100,000 for their study, to recruit commercial carriers for nothing.

I truly wonder how the Leigh Fisher Consultants, now called Jacobs Consultancy, will explain their Medium Growth Scenario Recommendation in the final Master Plan, when we can not recruit one commercial carrier now in their Master Plan. Leigh Fisher or should I say Jacobs Consultancy passenger predictions under the Medium Growth Scenario:

• 159954 by the Year 2010
• 213212 by the Year 2015
• 284204 by the Year 2020.
  

Ironically I was on the Jacobs Consultancy website and there is one section dedicated to Airport privatization http://www.leighfisher.com/services_airport_privatization.shtml. Pretty impressive track history, maybe this is what we should have hired them to do three years ago.