Port aux Basques is backing a weekly summer flight between Stephenville and Halifax to the tune of $5,000.
The town council voted to put that amount in trust to help the Stephenville Airport secure an airline to provide the service.
The decision was reached after a special meeting on May 7 where George Lee and Dave Morgan, members of the concerned citizens group supporting the airport, made a presentation to the council.
"It's not something that we feel there's any chance of losing," said Mayor Brian Button said of the investment.
The money will be added to other amounts collected from other businesses and municipalities in the region to act as a security for the airline. The total amount required is $150,000 and Mayor Button said the committee is within about $30,000 of reaching that goal.
The money will be administered by the Town of Stephenville and will only be used if the service fails. The money put up by Stephenville interests will be used before funds from places like Port aux Basques are touched.
"I believe it will benefit the citizens of our community," said the mayor, adding the major benefit is the ability of such a service to grow and cut down on the drive time for people of the region to access air transportation services.
"We believe in helping our neighbouring community just like we hope that if we're ever in a situation they'd work with us as well," he said.
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Council supports airport request
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- Published on May 17th, 2010
- Published on June 28th, 2010
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Natalie Musseau
Port aux Basques is backing a weekly summer flight between Stephenville and Halifax to the tune of $5,000.
The town council voted to put that amount in trust to help the Stephenville Airport secure an airline to provide the service.
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- Gerry
- - June 28th, 2010 at 14:29:50
It has been a long time coming, it is beginning to look like the people and buisnesses on the south west coast realize the benefits of having an airport operating in the local area.
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- blue
- - June 28th, 2010 at 14:29:50
gerry...the people and businesses on the southwest coast have always realized the benefits of having an airport operating in the local area,....and we had that...but thanks to regionalization and corner brook not supporting our coast by supporting deer lake, we once again have the shaft.
i fully agree that the stephenville airport should be operating at full capacity but so long as people from the southwest coast supports corner brook and deer lake the next service to go will probably be marine atlantic
when i think of how stephenville and corner brook have treated port aux basques in the past , i have little sympathy for either place .
corner brook has always wanted marine atlantic and has done everything possible to take freight and passenger traffic from pab.
stephenville took our school board offices,radio station,reduced us to circuit courts,schemed to run the coast guard traffic centre from stephenville,and im sure they would take marine atlantic too if the opportunity came their way.
you've never heard corner brook or stephenville support port aux basques by saying they would never take marine atlantic if they could
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