For some reason I can not find it on-line. Highly recommend that you read Your Turn on page 12 by Josie Brown.. Very accurate..
You can not blame MassPort, however, for worrying about Logan, or for that matter Hanscom, before ORH since they own those airports-not ORH. What pride of ownership, or return on investment, can MassPort receive through short-term ( 3 years) operating agreements with the City of Worcester. Maybe if they outright owned ORH or manged ORH through a 99 year lease, the results would be different. Couldn't be much worse???
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
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The article seems to say that ORH is an expensive place to do business. Fuel (Swissport) and fees (City) are too high if you can believe what WOMAG publishes.
An enterprise such as an airport cannot pay an average compensation package of $100K per employee aND EXPECT to survive or be competitive.
I wonder what the average comp package per employee is for private airport management comapnies?
Have we had any layoffs up thereince Sept 3rd?
jahn:
maybe we are on to something.. Maybe the reason Allegiant left ORH and no other airport was that is was too expensive to do business here??
You have asked for this information many times and I will work on this next.
Bill
Has the September Airport Commission meeting minutes been released ? Nothing on the city website yet.
Hopefully some/any positive news is needed at this point.
WT:
I e-mailed Airport Liaison Niddrie asking for this yesterday. Nothing yet.
Bill
Thanks for your efforts Bill
Thank you for the kudos...I'd been looking for it online as well and thought they had just decided against running it! I agree with the return on investment/giving a crap factor in regards to Massport...I can't remember if I mentioned it in the article or if that was one of the things I excised, but that's been my gripe with the Massport/ORH deal from the get-go.
Fuel for the airlines is less of a big deal, since their fuel is generally bought on the open market (since so much is used - each Allegiant flight took an average of 2000+ gallons of fuel before heading back to Sanford), and then they pay storage fees. I have little doubt that said fees would deviate from the "rack it up" approach to fees that's so prevalent on the field, but there are added issues of taxes (I believe the city has a tax of something like 9 cents a gallon if I remember correctly...9 cents x 200 gal = $180 a flight!) and field fees that probably didn't help matters either.
Thanks again!
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