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Michael2012: Here is an interesting update on RIAC's plans for expansion and safety improvements. RIDEM and the airport are still working on the glycol plant and runway mitigation issues. No funding has been identified yet for the necessary glycol plant project doe to be completed in two years to comply with the MOA between the city and RIAC. The safety improvement project is on a funding hold until next construction season if not the season beyond that. The design of this project has not been finalized yet. CRMC is issuing a provisional finding that allows RIAC to move forward if there are no plan changes. But the actual plan is not set yet because nobody knows how much money will be available. If at that point the CRMC objects RIAC will be subject to additional funding and construction project delays. In short, the glycol and runway safety projects have all but stalled out. RIAC will be challenged to start the runway extension project within the timeframe allowed under the EIS.

People in Eastern Connecticut and Western Rhode Island will clearly go to Bradley if prices are lower there or non-stop service to West Coast is reintroduced. The battleground is the casino market. Don't think for one minute that Mr. Dillon won't be encouraging airlines to do some packaging for that traffic.

Are you really suggesting gaming at the airport terminal? That will most assuredily drive the Connecticut casinos to drop Warwick as a route to their casinos.

As far as airline expansion is concerned it is going to be a real bear to get the seat capacity up to a level that encourages lower ticket prices. Anyone who thinks otherwise never experienced T.F. Green before Southwest Airlines showed up. In those days it made clear sense to drive to Logan or Bradley even though the trips were more difficult in those days. Runway expansion cannot happen until after airline expansion.

38 Studios put us on the map. Coming up we have the 195 Relocation financing scheme followed by various RIAC financing problems. We are on the map - but for all the wrong reasons. I agree that RI needs to do everything it can to become economically attractive. Killing the brain dead runway expansion is a great place to start.

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