Last night I watched 60 Minutes like many of you have, I am more than sure, and I do enjoy watching them fairly regularly.
As some of you might recall that I had been touting Allegiant and their presence in our county of Charlotte in southwest Florida with taking over our used to be small regional airport in Punta Gorda Florida https://www.flypgd.com/, 8.7 miles from my home, and turning it into a more flights to many locales one, forty daily, to many points north and in the midwest. 60 Minutes did an expose segment last night on Allegiant Air and all their alleged air incidents, about their aged and malfunctioning aircrafts, and dangerous turn arounds due to those problems in mid air. So I perked up my ears and stared at the screen with noted interest.
Locally, they are also building their Sunseeker Resort https://www.yahoo.com/news/airline-massive-resort-feature-north-152403750.html on the north side of the Tamiami Trail/41 bridge along the Peace River, a twenty-two acre amazingly exciting new project for our area, 2.7 miles from our home in Port Charlotte.
So their impact on success or failure will have just that on our community, plenty.
Our local station NBC-2 in Ft. Myers reported that the powers that be within Allegiant in response to last night's story on 60 Minutes stated that is only half of the story, and further inquiries by NBC-2 news team stated that Allegiant Air at our airport they only have newer airplanes in use...whew!
Hope that all turns out alright for the airline and the public; and it goes without saying that... as far as safety goes there should never ever be any skimping on that!
Plus we are directly in line with their flight path, so even we have a vested interest in that portion of their company's honesty and hopefully truthful safety precautions! Even if we never ever take a flight!
Stay tuned to this story; I know I will.
Moving on...
Another quiet news day at home!
Fortunately, though last night's predicted to be very bad rain storm was not so bad here, thankfully!
Happy good night all!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
As some of you might recall that I had been touting Allegiant and their presence in our county of Charlotte in southwest Florida with taking over our used to be small regional airport in Punta Gorda Florida https://www.flypgd.com/, 8.7 miles from my home, and turning it into a more flights to many locales one, forty daily, to many points north and in the midwest. 60 Minutes did an expose segment last night on Allegiant Air and all their alleged air incidents, about their aged and malfunctioning aircrafts, and dangerous turn arounds due to those problems in mid air. So I perked up my ears and stared at the screen with noted interest.
Locally, they are also building their Sunseeker Resort https://www.yahoo.com/news/airline-massive-resort-feature-north-152403750.html on the north side of the Tamiami Trail/41 bridge along the Peace River, a twenty-two acre amazingly exciting new project for our area, 2.7 miles from our home in Port Charlotte.
So their impact on success or failure will have just that on our community, plenty.
Our local station NBC-2 in Ft. Myers reported that the powers that be within Allegiant in response to last night's story on 60 Minutes stated that is only half of the story, and further inquiries by NBC-2 news team stated that Allegiant Air at our airport they only have newer airplanes in use...whew!
Hope that all turns out alright for the airline and the public; and it goes without saying that... as far as safety goes there should never ever be any skimping on that!
Plus we are directly in line with their flight path, so even we have a vested interest in that portion of their company's honesty and hopefully truthful safety precautions! Even if we never ever take a flight!
Stay tuned to this story; I know I will.
Moving on...
Another quiet news day at home!
Fortunately, though last night's predicted to be very bad rain storm was not so bad here, thankfully!
Happy good night all!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
