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The Barnstable Municipal Airport published its annual propaganda report as a red herring to impact the Council's reappointment of Michael Dunning and Larry Wheatley as Airport Commissioners,

and the retention of one of the town's newest self-admitted criminals, Doc Mosby.

Instead of a written detailed explanation why Mosby,

who plead guilty to a threat to commit murder of a family member charge,

as well as the violation of a protective order.

is still working at his

$100,000 a year job,

and driving around in his taxpayer-paid new automobile.

Doctor Ann Marie Gryboski is an example of the flip side of Mosby's charge.

She reacted in the extreme to years of spousal abuse, and is waiting an action from the Grand Jury,

but had to surrender her medical license prior to a trial, if there's even going to be one.

Because she was forced off her job,

two thousand Cape Cod residents are without a primary care physician in an area that is already suffering from a dearth of primary care doctors.

Spousal abusers are a menace to society,

yet the Barnstable Town Council is cavalierly permissive of an admitted abuser who is also the chief administrator/chief of security, at the town-owned airport.

The BMAC report also notes,

"the airport offers “very affordable" and economic travel opportunities from Hyannis to other major destinations across the country,”

In reality a Barnstable family of three, headed for a vacation to Disneyworld, would have to spend

$375 ($125 each)

to fly from Hyannis to Boston to board a flight from Logan to Orlando that could cost

$297,

or $78

less than the cost for the 70 mile local trip than the 1,500 mile trip to Florida.

The airfare doubles with the return flight.

That doesn't include the added cost of parking, or the cab ride to get from their home to the Hyannis airport.

The BMAC 's F/Y 2008 written assumption doesn't mention the family’s option to spend

$125

for a limousine that would pick up all three at their home and drop them off at at the airport terminal at Logan or T.F. Greene.

The $500 the family saved avoiding the “very affordable” BMA could pay for their room accomodations for the weekend in Florida.

The BMAC fallacy reports

“63% of its “enplanements” are professional labor force such as construction workers, electricians, carpenters and similar occupations to fly by air to jobs in Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.”

Since the FAA definition of enplanement is,

the number of passengers boarding aircraft, that determine the demand for gate and luggage services,

why does the BMAC insist on spending

$45 million

in taxpayer money, to give more comfort to

37% of its customers.

Construction workers, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, etc. commuting to work every day bring along tool boxes that don't need to be checked.

The intentionally vague report then breaks into the realm of deception when it states,

“As the second largest employer on the Cape Cod, the airport offers employment opportunities to more that 1,143 workers.”

When I was in school “employer” meant,

"to provide with a job that pays wages or a salary."

The BMAC report begins,

"The airport has 26.4 FTE’s." (Full Time Employees)

Mosby is the undisputed champion liar on Cape Cod (check archives for examples of other lies),

but 26.4 FTE's suddenly transformed into 1,143 employees within a page and a half won't be believed by the village idiot.

The oversimplified diatribe subsequently states,

“From Hyannis, travelers are afforded many connecting flights to Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, Boston, New York’s LaGuardia, and T.F. Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island. From these major hub  connecting airports, travel throughout the world is possible.” 

Once airborne, an airplaine must ultimately land somewhere. 

Hopefully it will come to rest at an airport where other airplanes bound for faraway places have landed as well.

Because Airplanes routinely take off and land tens of thousands of times daily, if the Barnstable Municipal Airport died tomorrow, it wouldn't merit an obituary in airport trade magazines..

The BMAC budget report will undergo a Power Point presentation before the Council soon. 

It finishes with the BMAC's long and short term goals;

1. Complete the permitting and limited design phase for the new Airport Terminal and vehicle access road.

(Why continue to permit and design when you haven't asked the Council to borrow the $22 million you'll need as your share of the building costs?)

2. Complete the design and construction for the new Air Traffic Control Tower.

(Is a new tower needed?)

3. Continue to improve community relations with consideration to noise and pollution.

(The BMAC should change the word "continue" to START)

4. Evaluate available technologies for improving noise, and storm-water and ground water management. 

(Finally after a decade of arm twisting with not a single positive action, the BMAC says it will act on its environment. 

The real question should be, "Will these promises of improvements continue after the Council authorizes the $22 million for the terminal expansion?)

Long Term Promises

1. Construct the new airport passenger terminal.

(Again, WHY?)

2. Build new general aviation hangers and public facilities to meet the needs of general aviation demand.

(When did the BMAC build its last hanger?  I've seen an aerodrome built by Rectrix, and two T Terminals built by the Silvia Brothers, but nothing from the BMAC.)

3. Develop market strategies to attract perspective air carriers to meet the Cape's demand for air travel.

(Did they mean "prospective" air carriers?)

(What demand?) 

(Does the BMAC mean the 37% who fly to and from Nantucket from the airport?) 

(Why didn't the BMAC mention the Steamship Authority that transports 10,000 times more passengers?)

4. Serve as an integral component of the Cape Cod Transportation Plan in order to more effectively promote the use of mass transit transportation.

(I don't get the necessity of the airport, maybe the BMAC's use of the term "integral" is akin to integer used to define a calculous function?)

If the BMAC closed its commercial passenger service to Boston, Providence, Marthas Vineyard, and Nantucket, the only thing missed or missing would be the extra cash in Dan Wolf's pockets, and those of the two other puddle jump airlines.

What this town needs NOW is a "Black Cat" style ferry.  With a boat that could get to Nantucket in 20 minutes, the terminal could be razed, and the airport leased to one of the fixed based operators.

Comments

There is a special airport meeting today @ 5:30. Some are wondering if it concerns the manager's future.

is it open to the public???

The Secretary of State has one concept of the threshold of executive session, and the airport commission has their level.

Whether Mosby gets fired or not is problematic.

The meeting must start out as an open meeting, but soon could turn into executive session because Mosby's firing could be construed as personal.

The odds of Mosby getting fired are long because of his role in the new terminal.

If they can him, the might be tossing their only chance for a new terminal.

Mosby put that stuff about all the jobs created by the airport to difuse criticism about the 100 good paying real jobs the airport will blow up taking all that property for parking for the new terminal.

If the "right" people are behind you on Cape Cod you can get away with anything, and Mosby is no exception.

Nantucket got $12 million. Delta is setting up direct flights to Nantucket from NY. By by BMA and good riddance to Mosby, Dunning and Wheatly.

Great post. With ferry speeds increasing and aviation fuel costs rising there is no need for this mega-terminal. A modest upgrade in facilities is more than sufficient.

No upgrade. No airport. It's noisy, polluting and deadly for the people of Barnstable and Yarmouth.