September 03, 2006

Primary Airport Status

Just thought of this today. An airport that has primary airport status, which is attained when you have 10,000 emplanements, entitles the airport to $1,000,000 from the FAA. Although we did not have 10,00 passengers in 2003, 2004 or 2055, we were still given the $1,000,000. At the same time we were endanger of losing primary airport status and the $1,000,000.

Allegiant alone qualified ORH for the 1st time in 4 years to attain primary airport status ensuring ORH of the $1,000,000. For this we should thank Allegiant.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I am surprised to hear we got the money w/o metting the 10K goal. BTW, is the measuring stick a calendar year or the city fiscal year (June 30) ?

It aint looking too good now for meeting 10K goal again and if we should NOT get the $1,000,000 unearned gift , I assume the deficit will go up by another $1,000,000? OUCH !!!!!!

Bill Randell said...

Not sure how it is measured but I think calendar year???

Yeah, the FAA gave airports a break after 9/11 and still gave out the $1,000,000 even if the airport did not get 10,000 passengers..

Right now I just do not see it happening next year. I try not to be negative but losing a Pan Am was no big deal.. Losing Allegiant is!!

Anonymous said...

So I guess the big bash in June was a charade on 2 diff counts then :

1. it was already known by those in power that Alleg may pull the plug

2. who cares if we meet the 10K or not...we still get the $1M


Next time my littel leaguer hits a single, I am going to insist the ump give gives him 3 add'l bases.

Bill Randell said...

Jahn:

One thing was that the $1,000,000 was not guaranteed this year unless you got the 10,000 passengers.