Originally Posted by
sylvas808
I believe one of the ideas was for them to take 2/20 out of service completely for a few months to expedite the process and have the mainland flights land in kona or hilo. Then they would use 717's and RJ's to ferry passengers to maui landing on 5/23, not sure if that's gonna be the case or if they will do the night time repairs but either way something should be done before the runway completely falls apart.
That would be ridiculous, and it would kill the economy here. Plus Maui has a ton of mainland flights, I doubt any one airline could handle that, and who would pay for ferrying people over? That's just not going to happen, it's ridiculous.
Repairs (and extensions) aren't the issue, the feds don't want to patch it anymore, they say OGG needs a new runway, so they will have to do it in small sections at night when they finally get around to actually doing it. Or build a completely new runway, which would face all sorts of local opposition and take years to approve and longer for the inevitable court challenges, so I doubt that will happen any time soon either.
Anyway, it will be interesting to watch the planning process.
The Maui Now article mentions extending the other runway.
http://mauinow.com/2011/12/12/faa-to...aced%E2%80%9D/
ah, there's a meeting on Monday 1/23 ...
http://mauinow.com/2012/01/16/kahulu...oming-meeting/
-David