MORE DETAILS RELEASED ABOUT AGREEMENT BETWEEN PALMER AIRPORT AND BREEZE AIRWAYS

Further details released on the agreement between Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and Breeze Airways showed that the carrier was promised $1.3 million in Government Funding.  The Trib reports that state and county officials did say the substantial government package was needed to attract the Utah-based carrier.  In mid-September, the Westmoreland County authority secured an $850,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to serve as revenue guarantees for an unidentified airline to resume service from Palmer.  Another $500,000 in state funding was secured by State Senate Pro Tempore Kim Ward.  Breeze on Feb. 9 will begin to operate twice-weekly flights to Myrtle Beach and will begin two flights a week to Orlando on May 26.