People Express has not yet paid the roughly $100,000 in passenger facility charges it owes Newport News-Williamsburg International Airport.
The Peninsula Airport Commission has not yet decided what action to take regarding the unpaid fees, but airport executive director Ken Spirito hopes to have a decision by the end of the year, he said.
"We have gotten no communication from (People Express officials) and they have not paid anything," Spirito said Friday.
The commission met in closed session for more than an hour Friday, mostly to seek legal advice. It has not yet come to a decision on legal action, nor whether to cancel its subsidy agreement with People Express, Spirito said.
The commission agreed to subsidize People Express flights to Newark, N.J. and Boston by covering some of the operating costs of Vision Airlines, which operated the service for People Express. The airline suspended service Sept. 26 when the second of its two planes went out of service.
The money the airline owes the airport has already been collected from passengers and is supposed to be given to the airport to help finance construction and improvements, Spirito told the Daily Press earlier this month.
The commission gave People Express notice to leave the airport terminal Nov. 10.
- Source: http://www.dailypress.com
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