No way to validate economic predictions for proposed Inverness airport

Ok genious show me an Air Canada flight to Port Hawkesbury.

Yah this is why Port Hawkesbury has asked for no money to upgrade but instead invested their own to accept commercial flights. It is to bad that this Inverness plan is jeopardizing this growing airport that has required no public money eh? You are right though I clearly am pretty smart at least more so than yourself.

Please link this so people can see you talk out of your ass, with no real knowledge about the issue.

There is a reason for this. Maybe you don't know anything as was in the paper a week ago.

Phillip Jennex thinks it’s easier to promise regular commercial flights than it is to make them happen.

“There would need to be a certified security service to screen passengers and baggage,” wrote the former manager of the Port Hawkesbury Airport to The Chronicle Herald.

“There would need to be building infrastructure in place to handle this. There would need to be an airport/aircraft marshaller for every commercial landing, baggage handlers who are certified to touch/load an aircraft, etc. The airport itself would need to be fenced to assure that no uncleared person could easily access the airside operation. Then there is the issue of fuel services. Charter passengers never load or unload in the scheduled commercial services areas of any airport, so they do not need any of these services to be in place.”

The associated costs with providing those services for a limited number of flights, he warns, would mean fees for use would be too high for a regular carrier.

“Can anyone provide the names of the airlines who will provide this identified service?” wrote Jennex. “Can anyone provide the names of the locals who are willing to take on all of the responsibilities of owning an airport? Can anyone provide the risk assessment documentation that was created to go along with this capital expense decision?”

Those, like the location, we will have to wait to see.

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/local/inverness-rife-with-airport-rumours-330301/

So yeah who are these commercial carriers who will be providing service. There is a reason Port Hawkesbury doesn't have commercial service. Now explain who Inverness is different, please. You have some very real questions to answer here.

All while shitting on an infrastructure upgrade to the best thing thats happened to Cape Breton in your lifetime.

No one is providing flights into Inverness dummy. Sorry, there are no commercial carriers that want to provide regular flights into nowheresville Cape Breton. This is an airport for rich dudes.

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