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From This Corner - Airport, like fire district issue, lacks 'groundswell of support'
Written by Paul Gauvin
August 03, 2007
"If there's going to be a new terminal, there has to be a groundswell of support."
That's the view of Airport Commissioner Michael Dunning reported in the press last week. It mirrors the sentiment of those who have studied and struggled and proposed and agonized for years over consolidation of the town's five fire districts into one town department. There has to be a groundswell of support -- from the bottom up.
It hasn't happened for fire district consolidation and at this juncture a "groundswell of support" for a new airport terminal without extensive roadwork along Attucks Lane and the frequent roadblock we call the Airport Rotary isn't happening either.
Start with the most basic scenarios that engender public distaste for the airport:
It is shortly after 6 a.m. You are sound asleep, the windows are open, the breeze caresses and then you hear it, a distant whirring sound. You try to ignore it but it gets louder, and louder, and louder as one of those noisemakers known as a Cessna 402 reaches a shattering crescendo as it passes directly overhead. A few seconds more and the noise subsides. Sock your pillow and roll over in search of a bit more slumber. Forget it. Four, five or more 405s zoom past within the hour.
The flights of these small planes are frequent enough to range from pesky to downright annoying, as when you are on the phone and one of the flights pre-empts the voice on the other end.
People who are thus affected have learned over the years that calling the airport's complaint line is a waste of time. The planes are going to fly no matter, and there are only so many lanes they can use over the relatively densely populated areas of Hyannis, Centerville, Yarmouth and wherever.
Residents who experience these disruptions on a daily basis are not likely to participate in a groundswell of support for any airport undertaking that, in addition, also depends on taxpayers to co-sign multi-million-dollar loans and risk having to pay them off in the absence of absolute guarantees (there is no such thing) that the airport will sustain a cash flow sufficient to repay the loans without turning to the taxpayer.
The town administration to its credit is balking at the airport management's economic plan and in approving a new terminal without attendant road and traffic improvements. That is as it should be. The administration needs to remain steadfast in its demands.
Airport cash flow is unpredictable for many reasons. It could lose substantial profits if Rectrix wins a court case over a jet fuel monopoly held by the airport. It could lose passengers if boarding or other fees are tacked onto fares.
Cape Air and other smaller short-hop airlines locally are the major users of the town-owned terminal and one has to wonder, in the current scheme of things, why Cape Air, like Rectrix Aerodrome, doesn't build its own terminal, mitigate the car traffic requirements at its own expense, and spare the town and the airport commission all this grief.
After all, Cape Air and its 50 Cessnas used in its operations here, South Florida, the Caribbean and in Micronesia, indicates it has become the major player in the island-hopping airline industry. It profits more than anyone from the terminal operations.
"Last year Cape Air carried over 650,000 passengers, making us the largest independent regional airline in the United States," says its Web site. Many of those passengers, however, are daily regulars to fly to and from the islands to work.
Having Cape Air, which, incidentally, is moving offices to the modern Rectrix building, fend for itself as far as a terminal goes would privatize the terminal operation on land leased to it by the town for a piece of the action and presumably cut to the chase on this issue.
Few local taxpayers/voters actually use the airline, which is too expensive vis a vis a bus ride to get to Logan or Providence to connect with a major airline flight elsewhere. As it isn't critical to the convenience of the masses, support for the airport is less than tepid.
Because of incorrect information received, the date of candidate Eric Schwaab's registration as a voter was inaccurate in last week's column. It should have read July 9, after which the candidate took out nomination papers.
Publication Date: 08/03/07
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