Frontier Airlines will
expand its flight offerings out of Trenton-Mercer Airport to
destinations in the south beginning in November, a senior vice president
of the company said Thursday.
Customers will be able to
catch a flight from the airport in Ewing, New Jersey, to Nassau/Bahamas
and West Palm Beach, Florida, said Daniel Shurz, senior vice president
of commercial operations for the airline.
There also are plans to
begin direct flights from the airport — located across the Delaware
River from Lower Makefield — to points west like Denver, Colorado, and
Dallas, Texas.
The extra flights are in
addition to the 73 flights per week to 17 destinations that the low-fare
airline already provides from Trenton-Mercer.
“We have found a way to
make this airport work,” Daniel Shurz, Frontier’s senior vice president
of commercial operations, told members of the Lower Bucks Chamber of
Commerce on Thursday morning.
Shurz, who is based in
Denver, was the guest speaker at the chamber’s monthly meeting. It was
held at Sesame Place in Middletown.
“There is no other airport in the country so underserved in such a prime location,” the airline executive said.
He found a favorable audience in the chamber.
“I am very pleased that
there is a low cost opportunity (airport) nearby,” said chamber member
Gadi Naaman, owner of The Buck Stops Here. The Sir Speedy operation is
located in Newtown Township.
But not everyone agrees
with the continued growth of the airline’s operations. Bucks Residents
for Responsible Airport Management is a grassroots group fighting to
ensure safe airport growth.
BRRAM has filed a federal
lawsuit against Frontier, the Mercer County Board of Freeholders and
the Federal Aviation Administration.
The suit, filed in April,
seeks to make sure the airport undergoes appropriate environmental
reviews before it’s expanded. Lower Makefield and Upper Makefield have
recently joined with BRRAM in the legal battle.
Shurz made mention of the lawsuit during his speech Thursday morning.
“There are some people
who are less than happy. They want their quiet to be maintained,” Shurz
said. “We are pretty sure we did everything right.”
Rich DeLello, a Lower Makefield resident and BRRAM vice president, is not so sure.
“If you are always making these changes, don’t you have to look at the impact?” DeLello said Thursday night.
- Source: http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com
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