BostonHerald.com
Friday, January 11, 2002

Carrier adds a route from Hanscom base
by Greg Gatlin

Shuttle America, the regional airline flying out of Bedford's Hanscom Field, plans to provide daily service to suburban New York's Westchester County Airport starting in March.

US Airways is selling tickets for five daily flights, slated to start March 4, to the airfield in White Plains, N.Y., about a 30-minute drive or train ride from the city.

Shuttle America spokesman Mark Cestari said the airline is working out unspecified ``administrative details'' related to the Westchester service, but ``we're hopeful that will be a March start.''

News of the Westchester flights could roil activists who've battled to limit commercial flights at Hanscom, which straddles the towns of Lexington, Concord, Bedford and Lincoln, just west of Route 128. Some have expressed concern that the thriving Westchester airport is a model for what the Massachusetts Port Authority wants to achieve at Hanscom.

The planned Westchester flights come as the airline has undergone a series of delays in resuming flights to New York's LaGuardia Airport, in the city's Queens borough. It had scheduled six daily US Airways Express flights, which were to start last Sunday, but have been postponed to Feb. 11.

Cestari cited administrative delays at LaGuardia for the postponements.

Shuttle America was recently bought by Wexford Capital LLC. It serves Trenton, N.J., and Philadelphia from Hanscom.

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