I caught the last community meeting up the airport regarding the Master Plan on television the other day. Airport Director Waldron told those in attendance that Allegiant pulling out of ORH, can not remember the exact words, was not due to ORH but more due to Allegiant specifically their fleet and the upcoming IPO. He then proceeded to site to back his case that Allegiant had pulled out of Stewart (Newburgh, NY) and Pease (Portsmouth, NH).
First off, Allegiant pulled out of Stewart, because National Express (company that runs the airport) does an excellent job. To that end, after Allegiant had agreed to come to Stewart, National Express also enticed JetBlue and Airtran. Once that happened Allegiant decided there was too much competition and changed their plans to come to Stewart. Secondly Portsmouth has two direct flights per week still to Sanford thru April.
How come Allegiant decided to keep two flights per week out of Portsmouth to Sanford (longer flight then ORH), but not ORH?
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...bacause (drumrole ,please) of the Harry Tembenis conspiracy theory...that Massport did not want Allegiant to succeed and ran them out of ORH so that they could pick it (ORH)up for a song com June.
Hey, I always offered them (Massport) the chance to buy my silence but they never took me up on my offer!
BTW, kudos Bill for getting mentioned in today's T&G !!
Harry Tembenis
Worcester, MA
Great article, all positive responses to Massport taking over.
AS I said before, we just have to look at the reasons Allegiant left and correct them. For example, if they did indeed leave for gas costs as they initially stated, what should we do??? Maybe lower the costs to meet Allegiant's demands. Even if we did bash them on their way out, we just shouldn't give up on them.
Swissportkept the airport alive Dave. Don't blame them for Allegiant leaving.
Carl:
I do not know if you noticed this or not but ORH will lose approximately $2,500,000 this year costing the tax-payers of Worcester about $1,800,000 after the MassPort subsidy. If that is what you call keeping ORH alive,I hate to see what you consider a slow death.
Bill
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