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Markyc makes a good point. RIAC clearly will raise the rent to airlines and raise parking fees to pay for the cost overruns incurred to move the ball fields. It is the only way that they can prove to Wall Street that they are credit worthy. Raise fees to pay debt service. But the problem is that RIAC competes with MassPort for airlines and passengers. And passengers switch to Logan when the prices at Green go up for flights out of Warwick. When the prices go down then some of them come back to Green. This has been going on ever sense deregulation was put in place in the 1970s.

The RIAC board pretends that no matter what they do, the passengers will flock to Green. If I were on the board I would hunker down, keep the infrastructure (and the fees) where they are. When RIAC invites price increases to support dead-on-arrival infrastructure - then the airlines say "oh screw" let's do that too. Some day the people are going to realize that the extra hour or so to get to Logan is worth doing to save three or four hundred on a flight to visit the kids out there where there are actually jobs to find and the kids have cashed in - leaving our cities and towns crumbling around the wonderful airport.

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