Federal Grants to Airports
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twdeckard
Pre-takeoff checklist
By "scary" are you referring to enplanements? These are revenue generating passengers (135 and 121).
I believe transparency is imperative and so would laud sites like this but the Pew folks need to add a column for economic impact. I'll grant that for an airport that is very difficult to quantify and generally the number is skewed by the agenda of the study author.
However, I still ascribe that in order to be European country you have to have a beer and a soccer team and in order to be a US town you have to have an off ramp, a railroad stop and an airport.
It is totally appropriate for the government to pay for a portion of this infrastructure from the general tax pool. Its just like the highway system.
Todd
I believe transparency is imperative and so would laud sites like this but the Pew folks need to add a column for economic impact. I'll grant that for an airport that is very difficult to quantify and generally the number is skewed by the agenda of the study author.
However, I still ascribe that in order to be European country you have to have a beer and a soccer team and in order to be a US town you have to have an off ramp, a railroad stop and an airport.
It is totally appropriate for the government to pay for a portion of this infrastructure from the general tax pool. Its just like the highway system.
Todd
Areeda
Pattern Altitude
Oh I agree that it is an appropriate funding priority.
The scary part I was referring to is at EMT in 2004 there were 155K operations, in 2008 it was 88K and for 2009 it is reporting 38K.
What I found interesting is what our local airports are doing with their grants.
Joe
The scary part I was referring to is at EMT in 2004 there were 155K operations, in 2008 it was 88K and for 2009 it is reporting 38K.
What I found interesting is what our local airports are doing with their grants.
Joe
twdeckard
Pre-takeoff checklist
Sorry if my post came off as lecturing, I was preaching to the "whole world" It is discouraging how the volume has dropped off. I know the KFCM tower staff mention the decline in operations.
Todd
Todd
Graueradler
Pattern Altitude
The only problem I have with this sight is the limited amount of data provided. The implication is that operations and emplanements are THE significant measures of the worth of an airport. They give no value for us on operations and have data on revenue producing emplanements that can only be charter flights. We have no airline service.
They report that we had $2.34mm in grants 2005 to 2009.
I know of one company here that stated "We did not choose this location because of the airport but we would not have chosen it without the airport." Their annual payroll >$2.5mm and property tax > $100k. That is only one example.
As someone else said - economic impact is the appropriate statistic.
They report that we had $2.34mm in grants 2005 to 2009.
I know of one company here that stated "We did not choose this location because of the airport but we would not have chosen it without the airport." Their annual payroll >$2.5mm and property tax > $100k. That is only one example.
As someone else said - economic impact is the appropriate statistic.
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I'd like to know how they know which flights are charter flights, especially at uncontrolled airports. After 9/11 we started filing charter flights as TN but I don't think all operators do, and if the airport doesn't have a tower there is no one keeping track.