So where are we now?
Posted on December 7, 2007
Filed Under General
It’s December of 2007 and it’s been about 2 months, at least I think so, since the DOT Announced that YNG Received $575,000 from the SCASD Program to help entice a carrier to fly daily flights to a regional hub. Just prior to this news, we posted on here that Bowser and Co. had begun talking with a carrier; that quite frankly wasn’t looking for subsidy dollars to run a service.
The quote: Bowser said he spoke with an airline last week about service to Youngstown-Warren, and those talks will continue. It has not had a strong presence in this region like Continental Airlines in Cleveland and U.S. Air in Pittsburgh, he said.
The airline said it needs to do $2 million worth of business here in a startup period to turn a profit, the director said. Two other airlines had cited figures of $3 million and $5 million, Bowser said.
So I ask this: If that carrier they had begun talking with DOES NOT WANT the SCASD Money; then are we in talks with a second carrier that WOULD LIKE the SCASD Money?
Another interesting thing is the lack of stories on the airport over the recent months, there have been None; other than what Karl posted about local politicians trying to find one aspect of the airport to jump-start. I have not talked with Steve Bowser since early September, so I am not in the “know” on any airline talks at all.
So I guess we will all get a nice surprise next spring when a carrier should announce service out of YNG; at least according to the YNG SCASD Application schedule.
FLY YNG
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The last posted minutes are the September minutes that I got from the YNG site.
This is a listing of those that did and did not attend.:
Scott Lynn, Don Hanni, Thomas Petrarca, Patrick Pellin, John Masternick, and Attorney Dan Keating
Excused: Joseph Maxin, Michael Harshman, and Clarence Smith
Staff: Steve Bowser, Jack Sullivan, Afrodite Altieri and Colleen Black
Guest: Don Taylor, Mark Geisler, Ed Runyan, Duane Johnson, Thomas Murray, Phil Pegg, Walt Good, Jonathan Miller, Thomas Presby, Michael Prcela, Tom Murray, Ryan Stefan.
Whether any of these individuals are representatives of the local media or not I don’t know. Maybe someone can answer that question. I do know that a specific writer for the Rockford Register Star attends their Airport meetings and then files a story.