Can anyone explain to me why all the real hype over the new airport? It may be an unpopular position, but I have never understood what the big deal is. Doesn't the airport at Val.P. have a runway that is long enough to handle Air Force 1 and any other full size commercial jet? Why would the major carriers bring international flights to P.C. when Atl is 45 minutes north by plane? I just don't understand why I will all of a sudden be able to fly non-stop to NYC. What carrier's have already committed? Why did LUK really purchase the existing PC Airport? Bring me up to speed and please ponder what happens the day it opens and our real estate doesn't re-bound.
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BannedAuthor
Is it just me?
Is it safe to say that St. Joe is providing most of the stimulus for the new airport in order to create a business climate that is condusive to future population expansion? I know it's a pretty basic premise and one probably pretty well established. If any company held as much land for sale as JOE it is also basic that they would do the same. I for one am glad to have this kind of stimulus and don't see anything but good in it.
I do keep pondering whether there is to much spin or hype about the airport. I continue to hear people who are banking on the airport changing everything. I'm feeling a little uneasy about realtors using the airport progress as something more than I think it really is, but the older I get the more I realize I don't know much about much. I'll be watching for JOE as a whole to be sold in bulk asset transfer before the opening. Or maybe some yet to be seen delay in the progress of the airport for reasons that are more than meet the eye.
Is it safe to say that St. Joe is providing most of the stimulus for the new airport in order to create a business climate that is condusive to future population expansion? I know it's a pretty basic premise and one probably pretty well established. If any company held as much land for sale as JOE it is also basic that they would do the same. I for one am glad to have this kind of stimulus and don't see anything but good in it.
I do keep pondering whether there is to much spin or hype about the airport. I continue to hear people who are banking on the airport changing everything. I'm feeling a little uneasy about realtors using the airport progress as something more than I think it really is, but the older I get the more I realize I don't know much about much. I'll be watching for JOE as a whole to be sold in bulk asset transfer before the opening. Or maybe some yet to be seen delay in the progress of the airport for reasons that are more than meet the eye.
SWGB
What can Bay County do that Miami can't?
Provide better and cheaper airfare for Northwest Florida.
Beach Fanatic
Quick Math-
If I can travel to SoWal via air then I will come to my house twice as often and eat twice as many meals in your restaurants, rent twice the bikes, buy twice the booze, etc. My friends will come more frequently too if they don't have to drive 8 hrs. to Seagrove.
If I can travel to SoWal via air then I will come to my house twice as often and eat twice as many meals in your restaurants, rent twice the bikes, buy twice the booze, etc. My friends will come more frequently too if they don't have to drive 8 hrs. to Seagrove.
BannedAuthor
Quick Math-
If I can travel to SoWal via air then I will come to my house twice as often and eat twice as many meals in your restaurants, rent twice the bikes, buy twice the booze, etc. My friends will come more frequently too if they don't have to drive 8 hrs. to Seagrove.
Are they planning direct flights from Nashville?
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Moderator
Are they planning direct flights from Nashville?
Don't count on it for either Delta or Northwest...
Beach Fanatic
My friends will come more frequently too if they don't have to drive 8 hrs. to Seagrove.
Obviously we'll get more visitors if there is convenient and inexpensive air travel, but with the costs of airport parking, tickets, and bag fees, drive to the airport, hour or more you need to arrive before your flight, time for 2 flights, time to claim baggage, and get a rental car or shuttle .................. anyone only 8 hours away is much better off driving!
SoWal Insider
Infrastructure dollars are finite, and should be allocated in such a way that the government gets the best possible return on its investment. For the cost of the new airport, you can build a lot of limited access highway miles and extensions of current water/sewer grid to areas opened up for higher density development.it just strikes me as comical that an airport can be controversial given the acreage that was given for it's construction. This is one of the rare times when government is thinking forward. imagine the airport being needed too late, and negotiating fair market value for the land.
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