Arnold Palmer Airport
This airport reminds me of Worcester. Here is the latest update on their numbers: Passenger traffic is growing steadily at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. In a monthly report of passenger numbers released Tuesday by the Westmoreland County Airport Authority, 67,026 people have flown from the Unity airport on commercial carrier Spirit Airlines in the first four months of 2013. This is 50,000 more than the number of passengers who flew in the first four months of 2012 — which totaled 17,161 — and more than the entire number of passengers in 2011, which totaled 64,013. Spirit has served more than 277,695 passengers at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport since service began to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in February 2011. It added service to Myrtle Beach in May 2011; expanded to Orlando in May 2012; and will add three weekly non-stop flights to Dallas-Fort Worth beginning June 13. Read more: http://triblive.com/business/businessbriefs/4018905-74/tuesday-stock-ceo#ixzz2TqG9l5jO Follow us: @triblive on Twitter | triblive on...
read moreWorcester Local First and JetBlue
June 5th 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM Viva Bene Worcester Local First Reps from JetBlue will be there and Table Talk has donated Blueberry pies to everyone who attends the event.
read moreORH frequent flier program
Still think we should have our own frequent flier program. Right now with one carrier, JetBlue, we could credit True Blue Points to people as they reach certain levels; for example, ten trips in or out of ORH and you earn “X” amount of True Blue Points.
read moreTrue Blue Points
On the main page of this website, I urger people to: Enroll in JetBlue frequent flier program, True Blue. Check out the JetBlue AmEx card where you can earn points. In particular you earn 20,000 points, if you spend $1,000 on the card during the first three months you have the card Buy tickets. Recently Jose tweeted that he did in fact 1) get a jetBlue AmEx card and 2) spent $1,000 during the first 3 months and earned 20,000 points. What do points equate to? Lets check out a flight Dec 14 Worcester to Fort Lauderdale Dec 27 Fort Lauderdale to Worcester 256 dollars round trip dollar cost At that top you can change the option from dollars to points same flights round trip points 17,800 $5 cash Bottom line, Jose could pay for this round trip flight with the 20,000 points he just earned and have 2,200 points left over.
read moreFlyORH official hotel
Picked this as the official hotel due to it’s location right off the Mass Pike, Route 290 and the Mass Pike. Relatively newer hotel and the prices are good. If you were to stay here, you can get to the airport in less then 15 minutes with very little traffic. Here is my interview with the Kathy Kirk, the Director of Sales at the Holiday Inn Express in Auburn, MA. Kathy started as a night auditor and worked her way up, working in just about every department except housekeeping. Her sales background in life and health insurance and her social skills from being a previous owner of John Robert Powers Modeling in Worcester, has all worked together in performing her current duties as a Sales Directors. She currently sits on the Board of the Central Massachusetts Visitors Bureau and Auburn Youth and Family Services, serves as President of the Friends of Pappas Recreational Field and is part of the Rotary Club of Uxbridge. Why do you think you were named the official hotel of FlyOHR? I believe we were named as the official hotel of ORH due to the demand for excellence for all the airport travelers. Currently, Holiday Inn Express is number one Trip Advisor in Auburn and has won the Trip Advisor Excellence Award, and won the Best of Auburn contest two years in a row. Being part of the IHG Group of Hotels family, the high standards for meeting our guests needs and wants in an above standard way, are extremely high. Is it easy to get to ORH from your hotel? It is so easy to get from our hotel in Auburn to the Worcester...
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FlyORH take on the Slots
I would not support the slots if we did not have state run ”slots” that sell 15 dollar scratch tickets 36 two dollar scratch tickets 28 five dollar tickets 13 ten dolar tickets 8 20 dolar tickets Keno Keno to go Mass Cash MegarBucks MegaBucks Doubler Lucky for Life Powerball Lucky for Life Not to mention Bingo in local churches Twin Rivers FoxWoods Mohegan Sun Las Vegas Atlantic City on line gambling three proposed casinos in Massachusetts If our community did not need the additional tax revenues or jobs, then I would not support the slots. None of this obviously happens to be the case. That said, I do have concerns before I can fully support the slots: Millions and millions has been spent on the Route 146 extension to make Worcester easily accessible. A slot parlor off Kelly Square could cause many traffic problems. Anyone who says this would bring drugs and prostitution to Worcester makes me wonder, if they leave their house. I just don’t want a slot parlor to make the drugs and prostitution worse. I do not want people to come to Worcester, park at the slot parlor and drive right home. The Host agreement needs to address these three concerns in order to get my support. Imagine traffic plans can be created, a police substation within the casino and a shuttle bus that loops around the city every 30 minutes could satisfy my concerns. During the past month I have heard many other alternative proposals for this site. One from John Carnegie to make Worcester a Google Fiber City, I liked a lot. The...
read moreJetBlue and the Caribbean
Today JetBlue announced new service from Fort Lauderdale to Haiti twice per day. At first you almost don’t even think about it. Now keep in mind we have daily flights to Fort Lauderdale!!! Click here for the story. If you want to fly to Haiti, fly ORH to Fort Lauderdale and connect to Haiti. JetBlue has made a huge commitment to Fort Lauderdale, one of their focus cities, to have 100 flights per day. Click here for that story. What I am trying to say is that not only will we have daily flights to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, but with one simple connection ORH can not only be the airport for Florida, but the Caribbean!!
read morePhil from Traditions, official limo driver of FlyORH
Phil stopped by to let me know about all the comments that he has gotten being named the official limo driver for FlyORH. He also wanted to show me the new signs that he was putting on his vehicles. O’kay I know it is too small. Here is the close-up.
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