{"id":5009,"date":"2012-10-04T09:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2012-10-04T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:59:46","slug":"leitner-updates-airport-operations-wetland-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5009","title":{"rendered":"Leitner Updates Airport Operations, Wetland Moving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GreatLakes120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4129\" title=\"GreatLakes120\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GreatLakes120-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; A project at Jamestown Regional Airport is moving a wetlands area near the airport.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s (Oct 4, 2012) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, airport manager, Matthew Leitner said the wetland area southeast of the airport will be filled in, and land has been purchased to place the area away from the runway.<\/p>\n<p>He said birds that migrate to the present wetland area, pose a danger to aircraft taking off and landing because of possible bird strikes to the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>He added that explosions are sent into the air to scare off the birds, but doesn\u2019t always work.<\/p>\n<p>On another topic Leitner said September 2012 Jamestown boardings were 171, or 90- fewer passengers than in August this year.<\/p>\n<p>He expects boardings to pick up with holiday travel coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that reservations can be made through local travel agents, or by calling Great Lake Airlines at 252-3414.<\/p>\n<p>He said Great Lakes has significantly improved with its on-time performance at Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>Leitner noted that the recent Flyin-4-Food promotion in conjunction with Great Lakes Airlines netted over 100 pounds of non-perishable food items, that was dropped off at the airline counter at Jamestown Regional Airport in the month of September.<\/p>\n<p>Those dropping off the food items were invited to sign up for four drawings for tickets provided by Great Lakes Airlines, roundtrip tickets between Jamestown and Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>He said the items donated went to the Progress Center in Jamestown.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the airport is ready to handle any snow storm accumulations.<\/p>\n<p>Leitner said the new $136,800 broom truck has joined the snow removal forces at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>He added the previously used broom truck will be advertised for bids.<\/p>\n<p>His office has more information on the specs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; A project at Jamestown Regional Airport is moving a wetlands area near the airport. On Thursday\u2019s (Oct 4, 2012) Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2, airport manager, Matthew Leitner said the wetland area southeast of the airport will be filled in, and land has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5011,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/5011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}