Well, maybe Jefferson County legislature Chairwoman Carolyn D. Fitzpatrick, R-Watertown, was overstating it when she said that…but she also said the new service–scheduled to begin November 17–was “all I\u2019ve thought about” since this past winter. But Chicago O’Hare is a major hub airport, so this may prove to be a good way for some people to get where they want to go.<\/p>\n
Fitzpatrick’s statement at the formal announcement of the new service Tuesday afternoon, was reported in this<\/a> article by Nancy Madsen in the Watertown Daily Times. And, hyperbole aside, here are the basics:<\/p>\n American Eagle, American Airlines’ regional service partner, will be providing the service. There will be about twelve flights a week each way, and it looks like they’ll cost about $330 per round trip–that’s including a Saturday stay–or about $850 without one (or at least if you decide to test the skies early, go November 17th, and come back on the 18th.) And if you do fly to Chicago, it’ll be on a 44-seat plane, not a 9-seat Cessna as on Cape Air.<\/p>\n Re: Money, American Eagle will receive $3,047,972 annually through a federal Department of Transportation Essential Air Service contract to operate the service; and the county Board of Legislators is spending $794,750 on expanding the airport terminal for the expected increase in traffic.<\/p>\n Lots more information in the article (again<\/a>), and if you’re interested here’s<\/a> the press release from American Eagle, which also lists flight times.<\/p>\n Happy trails!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, maybe Jefferson County legislature Chairwoman Carolyn D. Fitzpatrick, R-Watertown, was overstating it when she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,4802],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}