robthree

smithee,

I'd say that Cape is as safe a place to be as any. Which isn't saying too much right about now. All the growth has been in the EAS business. To date it has been reputedly profitable. With luck the new routes will be as well.

The other business is operating to geographicly isolated areas on segments which are too short for larger airframes to be profitable on.

BOS - PVC is a 30 mile, 15 minute flight, or a 150 mile, 6 hour drive.
HYA - ACK is a 26 mile, 14 minute flight, or a 45 minute ride on the fast ferry, or 2 1/2 hour ride on the slow ferry.
RSW - EYW 1 hour flight, 6 hour drive.
STT - STX 30 min flight, 2 1/2 hour ferry, in some of the deepest, roughest waters in the world.


Many Cape air pax are quite well off and appear somewhat immune to a poor economy. The median price of a house on Nantucket is over 1.6 million. Another big segment of our traffic is commuters to the island. There is a very small pool of labor on ACK -so construction and tradesmen fly over every day to go to work - its actually much cheaper to buy a R/T ticket every day than to live on ACK. And the very high end of the Real Estate market has not been affected at all by the housing bubble bursting - so they've still go work to do, both new construction and remodeling.

Oh yeah one other thing, we burn AvGas, not kerosene. And a lot less of it than what you're probably used to.