ORH Achilles is the Landing Systems

Over the past two years, we have talked about various airlines that ORH should recruit. In addition, we have made a list of recommendations to make ORH better. Refer to our home page http://www.flyorh.com under "Vision and Recommendations".

Last night driving home in the fog reflecting on the delays Allegiant has faced in its first month of operations, we may have missed the biggest problem facing ORH. It is becoming obvious to me that the Category 1 Landing system is not sufficient. What difference does it make if you have a direct access road, but your plane can not take off? Although airport management assured us that Category 1 was adequate, numbers do not lie.

What do we do next??? No way should the tax-payers of Worcester should pay for it!!!! Our city, state and federal delegation should go to FAA and explain the merits of an efficient ORH would gave on the entire region, not just Worcester. Lets not forget about New England Regional Air Study plan, we should make one of their recommendations be an upgrade of ORH to a Category 3 Landing System.

This is yet another example of the mismanagement at ORH. In retrospect an upgrade in the Landing System should have been implemented before a new terminal was ever considered.