{"id":37347,"date":"2014-01-20T07:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37347"},"modified":"2014-01-21T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:24:41","slug":"reg-airport-auth-sets-short-long-range-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37347","title":{"rendered":"Airport Sets Goals, Great Lakes Reduces Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JmstnAirport2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20939\" alt=\"JmstnAirport2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JmstnAirport2-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JmstnAirport2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JmstnAirport2-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/JmstnAirport2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Jamestown Regional Airport Authority met Saturday to review and update its strategic plan, setting priorities for 2014-18 assuming SkyWest Airlines will receive the bid to provide jet airplane passenger service to the Jamestown Regional Airport from Denver through the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s Essential Air Services program starting later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Great Lakes\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=37211\" target=\"_blank\">In a related story<\/a>, Great Lakes Airline has reduced air service to Jamestown to 1 flight daily, with no flights on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Airport Authority member Brent Harris says he doesn&#8217;t believe that there is currently enough parking space to accommodate a big increase in passengers at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Airport Authority member Keith Veil agreed also says if the jet service from SkyWest proves popular enough to bring in a second flight daily, the authority should consider space for a new commercial hangar to house a jet airplane overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Jim Boyd said there is space on airport property to accommodate more parking and hangar space.<\/p>\n<p>The committee&#8217;s goals for 2014-18 are:<\/p>\n<p>building a jetway boarding ramp;<\/p>\n<p>increasing the number of SkyWest flights and destinations;<\/p>\n<p>increasing public relations for new passenger and airport services;<\/p>\n<p>expanding market size with the Denver destination;<\/p>\n<p>increasing the crosswind runway width to 100 feet to accommodate jet landings;<\/p>\n<p>creating a terminal area growth plan that includes increased space for parking and aircraft accommodations\/hangars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamestown Regional Airport Authority met Saturday to review and update its strategic plan, setting priorities for 2014-18 assuming SkyWest Airlines will receive the bid to provide jet airplane passenger service to the Jamestown Regional Airport from Denver through the Federal Aviation Administration&#8217;s Essential Air Services program starting later this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37347"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37460,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37347\/revisions\/37460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}