- The old control tower is deplorable
- The old hangar building has no bathrooms, smells and has little or no heat
- The building that house Amity is not much better
- Also heard the roof to the new terminal leaks badly
WRRB/Telegram District City Council Forum 10/18
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This forum is for all district council candidates; all candidates are here
today. Format: 14 total questions, 4 questions across districts (for all
candida...
5 months ago
5 comments:
OUCH!!! Worcester airport is 'ailing' and Allegiant Air is 'flyin'.
Ho Hum.
Harry Tembenis
Worcester, MA
In regards to Amity Flight School.....the school has been on the field for at least 30 years. A significant portion of the daily operations at the airport are generated by the school; daily operations keep the control tower in business. Many of the schools graduates are now flying for airlines and the school has an international following, with students moving up from South America to get training. The conditionas they operate under are indeed deplorable. During the summer months, water leaking from the roof damages the class room and their computer equipment. The hanger roof is also bad (it rains inside as much as outside). Swissport, which has some of the highest fuel prices in the North East, refuses to give them a fuel discount which forces them to pass a surcharge on to their customers which hurts business. The city of Worcester has just approved the use of a temporary trailer, so that the students and instructors don't freeze to death.
Don't believe me.....just take a quick trip up there and check it out yourself.
ORH Pilot:
I may in fact grab my digital camera and make a trip up and take some pictures. Lets assume, for arguements sake, that the buildings are in as bad a condition as is being expressed here.
Why then do the tenants, like Amity, not complain?? Go to the newspaper, WoMag?? I just find it hard to believe that they would operate under these conditions. In the very least if I was a tenant, I would not pay rent until the repairs were made?
ORH pilot:
Swissport sponsored alot of fly-ins and pancake breakfast for the ORH pilots supplying food, fuel discounts and personnel.
Don't see any other airport tenants ever doing this according to the Worcester Airport Pilot Association website
SAM, get real, if the buildings are in the shape that they say, then the other tenants would not be able to open to the public for fear of humiliation. Also, I'm not sure that the pancake breakfasts were all that successful, considering no one ever reported on anything positive to come out of the airport.
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