NERASP

What are the other small airports (Hanscom and New Haven) saying about the NERASP?


Here is part from the Boston Globe:

State Senator Susan C. Fargo , a Lincoln Democrat who represents communities that have been battling commercial service at Hanscom for years, said of the FAA study: ``That is very alarming, I know the towns would oppose that kind of expansion vigorously. The road network just isn't there to maintain that kind of service."

Fargo said she is also mystified by the FAA projection, given that ``no airline has ever been able to maintain commercial service at Hanscom for any significant amount of time." After the 2004 shutdown of Shuttle America, Hanscom's commercial service now amounts to only a handful of daily flights on 19-seat planes by Boston-Maine Airways Pan Am Clipper Connection to Elmira, N.Y., and Trenton, N.J.And Boston-Maine has been an erratic tenant at Hanscom. In 2002, it launched service to several destinations, including Bangor, Maine; Nantucket; St. John, New Brunswick; and White Plains, N.Y. But then it pulled out of Hanscom in April 2003, before returning 11 months later to challenge Shuttle America on the Bedford-Trenton route.

Joseph A. Maturo Jr. , mayor of East Haven, Conn., where part of Tweed Airport is situated, scoffed at the idea of the little airport -- which has no easy connection to Interstate 95 -- ever serving 1 million annual passengers. ``To me, that is very far-fetched. It's a pie-in-the-sky number," Maturo said in a telephone interview. ``Airport studies are done by airport people, and I don't pay a lot of attention to them."