PORT ANGELES — The sign at William R. Fairchild International Airport is bigger than the old
one, but otherwise, nothing at the airport has changed.
It still lacks scheduled passenger airline service.
The
sign erected Dec. 29 at the entrance to the airport in Port Angeles was
ordered in June, said Jesse Waknitz, environmental specialist for the
Port of Port Angeles, which owns the airport.
That was several
months before Kenmore Air stopped its flights to and from Port Angeles
in mid-November, thereby canceling all scheduled passenger air service
out of or into the North Olympic Peninsula.
The sign, which cost about $18,000, was made by Jackson Smart of Port Angeles out of sign foam, a high-density urethane foam.
Funding was included in the 2014 budget, Waknitz said.
It
stands 5 feet tall and is 16 feet wide, replacing a smaller wooden sign
that had been at the entrance for more than 20 years, Waknitz said.
When
Kenmore Air Express stopped its commercial passenger flights for Port
Angeles on Nov. 14, airline officials cited low revenue, primarily
because of sagging ridership.
It was the only scheduled
commercial service on the Peninsula. It carried passengers between
Fairchild and Seattle's Boeing Field. A bus shuttle carried passengers
to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
City and county officials have met with Kenmore executives to find ways for the business to resume service.
A meeting in early December with Kenmore President Todd Banks was said to have been positive but inconclusive.
The
meeting ended in a consensus that representatives of the county's
public and private agencies “need to get back together,” said Jennifer
States, director of business development for the Port of Port Angeles,
then.
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