NEW YORK – The Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey has hired a Florida consulting firm
to study the possibility of the agency taking over Atlantic City
International Airport. That facility is currently operated by the South
Jersey Transportation Authority.
When the bi-state Port Authority
granted permission to take over Stewart Airport at Newburgh some four
years ago, it provided for New Jersey adding another airport at some
future point.
Last September, the Port Authority Board allocated
$3 million for a feasibility study into an Atlantic City Airport
takeover and without any fanfare it recently hired QED Airport and
Aviation Consultants of Amelia Island, Florida to conduct the study.
Officials of that company did not return phones for comment and
spokesmen for both the South Jersey Transportation Authority and the
Port Authority would only confirm QED was hired, but would provide no
details of what the study would entail.
When Stewart was acquired
by the Port Authority, officials said it would be developed to serve
the Hudson Valley and as a reliever facility to ease the airport
congestion in the New York Metropolitan area.
Atlantic City Airport may be considered as a possible reliever for airport congestion at Philadelphia Airport.
Source: http://www.midhudsonnews.com
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