Port Authority to Consider Route for Daily Service
VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- The Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport could soon announce connecting daily service to a Midwestern hub.
The airport’s director of aviation, Dan Dickten, will ask the board of directors of the Western Reserve Port Authority, which operates the airport, to pass a motion approving “the proposed discussed airline route and Midwest major airline connecting hub service destination.”
The motion also asks to authorize Dickten to make a joint announcement at the airport’s terminal, contingent on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s approval of the route and the airline’s concurrence on timing for such an announcement.
The motion on the agenda for the port authority’s meeting Wednesday, which was emailed late Friday, did not disclose the airline or destination. Prior discussions of connecting service to Midwestern hubs have revolved around Chicago and Detroit.
Earlier this year, the airport waged a campaign to raise public support and funds to provide a revenue guarantee for United Airlines to establish connecting service to Chicago O’Hare International Airport. In early May, United officials ruled out a link when the amount airport officials felt they could raise fell far below the $7 million annual guarantee the airline said it would need to not lose money on the service.
Copyright 2014 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.
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