JetBluefan1 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2791 posts, RR: 15 Posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 3041 times:
BatonOps From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 724 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 3011 times:
That is good news for the Utica/Rome area. Nice to see that the old Griffiss Air Force Base is being put to good use.
Maybe one day UCA will see scheduled airline service again.
DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7677 posts, RR: 18 Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2988 times:
No doubt having heavy MX work done @ RME will sit very well with the New York Senate and Congressional delegation. While the financial considerations of having the work done in Rome, NY were likely primary... the political goodwill it may generate is certainly just as powerful.
And this is certainly good for the economy over in Oneida county as well. Its a part of NYS that needs all it can get these days.
Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia
Shane From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 180 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2944 times:
Wasn't this being done in El Salvador at TACA's facility?
Pilotfox From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 542 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 2800 times:
Empire could really use the business, but I wonder how long it will last. I know Midwest stopped doing their heavy checks out there because of the crappy work that was done. Planes would come out of there with more broken things then when they came in.
STT757 From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 16316 posts, RR: 52 Reply 8, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 2755 times:
Up State needs all the jobs they can get, unfortunately the Up State region has not prospered as the City that shares it's name.
This is only an agreement for work on 12 aircraft for all of 2007, it would be a homerun if B6 or another major would invest into a permanent facility at the former Griffis AFB.
There are three former Air Force Bases in New York (Plattsburgh, Stewart and Rome), of the three Stewart is doing the best as they have landed Airtran and Jetblue. They also still maintain a Military presence through the NY Air National Guards 8 C-5s and the USMC Reserves 7 KC-130s.
Plattsburgh is getting a passenger terminal with hopes of attracting low fare carriers catering to Quebec residents.
When Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine closes in the next couple years as a result of the 2005 BRAC decisions it will leave New Jersey with the only active duty military airfields in the Northeastern United States.
New Jersey will have two active duty airfields, McGuire Air Force base and Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering station.
The Northeast has been hit hard through BRAC over the years, closed military airfields are..
Pease AFB, New Hampshire
Plattsburgh AFB, NY
Rome AFB, NY
Stewart AFB, NY
South Weymouth Naval Air Station , MA
Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine.
Charlienorth From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 1081 posts, RR: 5 Reply 9, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 2747 times:
Quoting Pilotfox (Reply 7): Empire could really use the business, but I wonder how long it will last. I know Midwest stopped doing their heavy checks out there because of the crappy work that was done. Planes would come out of there with more broken things then when they came in.
Sideflare75 From United States of America, joined May 2005, 613 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 2625 times:
Quoting Pilotfox (Reply 7): I know Midwest stopped doing their heavy checks out there because of the crappy work that was done.
That's true. Midwest gave them two chances at it but pulled out halfway through the second year. Really bad. I hope they are better at working on Airbuses then they were at MD-80's.
Lexy From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 2362 posts, RR: 9 Reply 11, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 2585 times:
Quoting WMUPilot (Reply 5): The 190s are going to be serviced in BNA
There was one E190 parked over at Embraer's hangars this past weekend. And I think there has been two or three others over there recently. Any ideas as to what they were there for??
Wjcandee From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4594 posts, RR: 18 Reply 12, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 2554 times:
Considering the incredibly-high-quality of work that Aeroman does in El Salvador, where you can eat off the hangar floor it's so clean and the work is done with pride, precision and meticulousness, I strongly suspect that this is pure, simple politics. Given that Air Canada (the other big A320 North American MRO location) just bought Aeroman, B6 may have been looking to have an additional supplier to put price pressure on the AC/Aeroman conglomerate.
Given Midwest's experience in Rome, we'll have to see whether B6 will be able to whip them into shape. There's a reason that they weren't being used extensively by major carriers, and I will be interested to see what kind of experience B6 has.
Remember: JetBlue equals George Soros. Democratic Party equals George Soros. Hillary equals Democratic Party. (Indeed, George Soros is a big Hillary backer, isn't he?) New York State equals Democratic Party. Hillary is in the press release. Hillary constantly looks for ways to ingratiate herself with folks in more-Republican Upstate New York. What do you want to bet that the impetus for this decision came from ownership, and not management?
Pilotfox From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 542 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2431 times:
WMUPilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1473 posts, RR: 12 Reply 14, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2416 times:
That was the press plane carrying David and Dave up to Rome for the official announcement.
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