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Passenger count declines at HIA

The number of passengers flying in and out of Harrisburg International Airport has decreased about 13 percent since this time last year, according to the Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority, which owns HIA.

At the authority's meeting this morning in Carlisle, board member David McIntosh said the number of airplane seats available for sale has also decreased this year -- by 17 percent -- because of bankruptcy-related cutbacks.

Dear HIA and Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority,

I would like nothing better than to fly out of Harrisburg International Airport on the two to four flights we do a year. The new airport is quite nice and convenient.

Unfortunately, it is also too expensive to fly out of at this time. Every flight we check is a couple hundred dollars more, roundtrip, than a similar flight out of Philadelphia. I hate the extra drive time hours on every flight we take, but when we're buying four tickets, it just doesn't make sense to pay the premium just to fly out of Harrisburg.

Figure out a solution to this, and you'll gain the passengers back. Fail to figure it out, and you're destined to remain in this situation.

We had no rain in Camp Hill for 21 days until Saturday afternoon. What we received was relatively brief - it may have rained for a half an hour or so - but everything has been so parched that you could practically hear nature let out a big sigh of relief as it came down.

Last night we received a bit more. Still... apparently this has not yet been a drought.

But I have been saving money on lawnmower gas.

Like I said, we all went to a corn maze last Sunday. Maize Quest is fun and a good side trip to rural agricultural Pennsylvania.

Central Pennsylvanians curious about the direction their local PBS station may be evolving might want to check out this.

It is part of a Corporation for Public Broadcasting project sampling a number of public television CEOs to "imagine their stations in 2012 from three perspectives: (1) from the viewer's living room, (2) from the board room of a local foundation, and (3) from inside the station." Interesting.

People actually call Harrisburg a vacation destination.