Listen! Do you hear Beacon Hill legislators and political hacks or even the Boston Herald screaming about revenue flooding across the state border?
Boston-centric officials have allowed East Boston to become such a Hell Hole of traffic congestion, most folks in the Commonwealth are forced to travel from airports in neighboring states.
Aren't airports supposed to be 'economic development'? Job creators? Why is no one promoting diverting air traffic to Worcester?
Without the phony Buzz Words and overstated promises provided by the Gambling Industry, the hacks ignore this one.
Why is the Boston Herald ignoring the revenue flow in this one, after cheer leading for taxpayer subsidized Gambling on the pretense of 'revenues flooding across the borders'?
Instead, Massachusetts taxpayers are threatened by Senator Petrucelli's + $500 MILLION Suffolk Downs Folly that will be as unsuccessful as the Big Dig. Those charitable contributions to Senator Petrucelli and Mayor Tom Menino sure clouded their judgment.
Not known for heavy lifting or deep thought, the Boston Herald missed the real issue!
Paychecks fly high at deserted airport
Administrators take home $100G+ in Worcester
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
More than half the administrators at the state’s money-bleeding Worcester Regional Airport raked in six-figure pay last year — even as the taxpayer-funded terminal continues to sit nearly empty, a Herald payroll review found.
View Complete Massport payroll report here.
The Central Massachusetts airport, which Massport officials estimated operates at a $4 million annual loss, paid more than $100,000 to four of its seven administrators last year, according to records obtained by the Herald through a public records request.
Massport also paid six security officers, eight maintenance workers and three on-call snow removal workers to work at the Worcester airport, which the Herald first reported last year has become a virtual ghost town after the one commercial airline serving Worcester — Direct Air — suspended flights about a year ago.
Massport is required to maintain the Federal Aviation Administration’s staffing requirements in Worcester in order to be considered for commercial service, according to agency spokesman Matthew Brelis.
“When Massport took ownership of the airport in July 2010, we did so taking a long view. Hundreds of thousands of passengers used the airport in the 1990s and more than 100,000 used it in 2011,” Brelis said. “No one is building new airports, and Worcester Regional Airport is a critical piece of infrastructure for Central Massachusetts and must be kept open, operational and available for commercial service.”
Massport paid the city of Worcester $15 million for the airport in 2010, even though the facility had a long history of financial problems.
Massport is in discussions to bring a commercial airline to the Worcester terminals.
JetBlue has expressed interest in opening service in Worcester and has even visited the city on several occasions, but there is no deal in the works to make that happen yet, Brelis said.
Worcester logged more than 45,000 operations last year, but those were mainly for corporate and charter flights, according to Massport.
Brelis said Rectrix Aviation plans to build a 27,000 square foot, $5 million facility at the Worcester site, but the company provides maintenance to corporate planes — not commercial flights.
As for the rest of Massport’s salaries, four top staffers earned $200,000 or more while overtime helped pushed “fire control” employees and some port workers into six-figure territory.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/02/paychecks_fly_high_at_deserted_airport
View Complete Massport payroll report here.
The Central Massachusetts airport, which Massport officials estimated operates at a $4 million annual loss, paid more than $100,000 to four of its seven administrators last year, according to records obtained by the Herald through a public records request.
Massport also paid six security officers, eight maintenance workers and three on-call snow removal workers to work at the Worcester airport, which the Herald first reported last year has become a virtual ghost town after the one commercial airline serving Worcester — Direct Air — suspended flights about a year ago.
Massport is required to maintain the Federal Aviation Administration’s staffing requirements in Worcester in order to be considered for commercial service, according to agency spokesman Matthew Brelis.
“When Massport took ownership of the airport in July 2010, we did so taking a long view. Hundreds of thousands of passengers used the airport in the 1990s and more than 100,000 used it in 2011,” Brelis said. “No one is building new airports, and Worcester Regional Airport is a critical piece of infrastructure for Central Massachusetts and must be kept open, operational and available for commercial service.”
Massport paid the city of Worcester $15 million for the airport in 2010, even though the facility had a long history of financial problems.
Massport is in discussions to bring a commercial airline to the Worcester terminals.
JetBlue has expressed interest in opening service in Worcester and has even visited the city on several occasions, but there is no deal in the works to make that happen yet, Brelis said.
Worcester logged more than 45,000 operations last year, but those were mainly for corporate and charter flights, according to Massport.
Brelis said Rectrix Aviation plans to build a 27,000 square foot, $5 million facility at the Worcester site, but the company provides maintenance to corporate planes — not commercial flights.
As for the rest of Massport’s salaries, four top staffers earned $200,000 or more while overtime helped pushed “fire control” employees and some port workers into six-figure territory.
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/02/paychecks_fly_high_at_deserted_airport
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