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The Treece Privatization Plan: Market & Marketability Study

Dec

2013

After going through a week plus of stories questioning them form the The Toledo Blade, the Treece family released the first substantial part of their privatization plan. The Market and Marketability Assessment (http://toledoairports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ToledoFinalReport.pdf) was prepared by Airport Business Solutions out of Tampa, Florida.

October 2013 Passenger Statistics

Nov

2013

After a down September, Toledo Express Airport passenger statistics resumed their upward momentum for October. With Fort Myers/Punta Gorda resuming mid month, Allegiant accounted for all of the growth at an increase of 78.6%. American Airlines operated by American Connection/Chautauqua showed a decrease of 3.4%. Overall, the increase was 21.5% over October 2012. Below are ...

Are TOL/TDZ Privatization Talks Realistic?

Nov

2013

A local (family) investment group ran by Dock Treece under the name Treece Investment Advisory Corp., along with his sons Dock David and Ben, have made public they are nearing the end of a study on taking over the operations of both Toledo Express Airport and Toledo Executive Airport. The facilities are currently owned by ...

American Airlines/US Airways Merger Could Be Opportunity for TOL

Nov

2013

With the American Airlines/USAirways merger back on, this could be a big opportunity for TOL to gain some new nonstop destinations from Toledo Express. While American Airlines is cutting one flight to Chicago in January, we could benefit from this merger in getting access to new hubs – mainly Philadelphia, PA and Charlotte, NC. Here’s ...

American Upgrading to 50 Seat ERJ-145s in January

Oct

2013

Effective January 8th, 50 seat ERJ-145s operated by American Eagle Airlines will replace 44 seat ERJ-140s on two flights a day to Chicago – O’Hare airport. This comes as American Airlines is removing the smaller ERJs from their network. While this is a good sign for TOL, there is cause for concern that this will ...

Mayoral Candidate Response: Alan Cox

Sep

2013

Mayoral Candidate Alan Cox is the first candidate to the respond to our members’ questions. We publically than Mr. Cox for taking the time to respond to us and we would now like to share his response with everyone.

2013 Toledo Mayoral Primary Questionnaire

Aug

2013

As we send questions off to the candidates, we wanted to give our members and supporters a look at the questions being presented. These were supplied by email, Facebook, and forum posts from those that follow us. The questions cover a vast array of topics and should provide a great insight of each candidates position ...

Allegiant Air Extends Schedule through April 2014; Adds Capacity

Aug

2013

The Spring of 2014 will see an increase in capacity from Allegiant Air compared to the Spring of 2013. While the it doesn’t appear they will be flying a full week of service to any of the destinations over the Spring Break time frame, they have upped seating capacity throughout the entire month to all ...

July 2013 Passenger Statistics Released

Aug

2013

July 2013 continued the upward momentum passenger wise at Toledo Express Airport. 14,484 passengers flew to or from TOL this past July which equated to a 22% increase over July 2012. Also, this past month, we have broken the 100,000 passenger mark for the year at 102,324. Allegiant Air again lead the pack with 7,854 ...

June 2013 Passenger Statistics

Jul

2013

So far, 2013 has reversed the trend of passenger declines at Toledo Express Airport. Following a stellar May, June came in just as strong with a total of 14,841 passengers, or an increase of 17.5% over June 2012. Year to date, passenger numbers are ahead of 2012 by a slim margin of 3.6% to 87,840 ...