I’m actually in favor of this idea and I hope City Council will come around to it. It’s counter-intuitive for me, I know, to favor the City of Macon spending $135,000.00 a year on a private company to grow our airport, but I really think it would be money well spent.
I’m familiar with TBI Airport Management and I think they would do a much better job than the city has.
Macon actually has a good airport facility. There is no reason why we should not have a Southwest hub at the Macon Airport. I think people would flock to that. Right now, to get Southwest, you have to make the 5 hour trip to Macon to Birmingham by car.
I understand the difficulty in getting up money for this, but I think the long term benefit, and future financial revenue stream that could be generated would be well worth the money up front.
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Icarus 03.28.07 at 9:58 am
Anyone else hearing rumblings that the City of Atlanta is about to dust off it’s plans for a second airport? I thought that idea was killed off about 10 years ago, but I’ve heard it’s about to be floated again.
buckmckenzie 03.28.07 at 11:10 am
I believe Atlanta owns land in Paulding and Dawson counties for such an airport.
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