Seaplane operator Tailwind Air was unable to launch deliberate service between Manhattan and Maryland’s School Park Airport on Tuesday.
As an alternative, the service is working to start out service to Washington Dulles’ personal terminal from the Skyport Marina on Decrease Manhattan’s East River on Sept. 27.
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Had it launched, the Manhattan-School Park flight would have been the one usually scheduled service inside the flight restricted zone that covers the D.C. Beltway, except flights to Reagan Nationwide Airport. Tailwind introduced plans to fly the service in mid-August.
The plan was disrupted, nonetheless, when TSA expressed considerations in regards to the route across the first of September, Tailwind co-founder Peter Manice stated.
“I do not wish to get into too many particulars. It has been a really constructive relationship thus far and we’re sort of acceding to their requests,” Manice defined.
TSA additionally declined to specify its considerations.
“TSA and FAA are working collaboratively with Tailwind Air to discover and handle safety choices,” the company stated in a press release. “As a result of it is a matter of transportation safety and is taken into account to be delicate safety data, we won’t remark additional on these considerations.”
Manice stated that Tailwind nonetheless hopes to fly to School Park, although the launch can be delayed till not less than early November and presumably till the service resumes flying in March following its common winter operational respite. Within the meantime, he expects Tailwind to fly New York-Dulles 10 occasions weekly, simply because the service had deliberate for New York-School Park. Talks with Dulles are nonetheless being finalized.
Tailwind operates scheduled constitution flights with eight-seat Cessna Caravan Amphibian planes and at present flies nonstop from Manhattan to seven locations in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.