State of Ohio offers CO incentive to build Clevela
Have you heard about the $16 million incentive package the State of Ohio is offering to Continental Airlines? If you haven’t the money would go to build infrastructure at Cleveland Hopkins Airport and provide job training resources for the airline. In return, Continental would add 700 jobs in the Cleveland+ region and add more connecting flights. For the full story here's the cleveland.com link.
Now most of you know that CAK is just 50 miles south of Cleveland Hopkins Airport in Northeastern Ohio. You may be wondering how we feel about such an aggressive support package for our neighboring airport. Well here it is… we are absolutely in favor of it. Cleveland+ is competing with Houston and Newark for the investment and make no mistake about it, air service is economic development. States and communities should invest in air service infrastructure. I would love to see Cleveland land this project. Sure it means stiffer competition but we’ve never shied away from that.
So thanks Ohio for putting some money towards a very important project. This would be a huge win for our region. I’ve got my fingers crossed…(and no… not behind my back :).
