I take it you've never seen "Wings". I loved that show.

Lowell Mather
(Season 1-6) Lowell is a dim and eccentric mechanic/handyman who works at the airport and is available to everyone when repairs are needed. Lowell claims that, while he is not an orphan, his brother is. He was married to a woman named Bunny with whom he had several children, but they divorced when Lowell learned that Bunny was sleeping around. After Brian sank the houseboat Lowell lived on, Lowell lived with Joe and Brian for a time, where Lowell revealed a surprising talent for cooking. After about a year, however, his eccentricities became unbearable to the Hacketts, and they kicked him out to find his own place. Eventually, Lowell is forced to leave Nantucket and enter the Witness Protection Program after witnessing a mob hit. Although it was hard for him to leave Nantucket and the people he knew all his life, Lowell decided he would prefer to go into hiding than let a guilty man get away scot-free, knowing he could murder again. Lowell was played by Thomas Haden Church.

Wings is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. Starring Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett, the show was set at the fictional Tom Nevers Field, a small airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Hackett brothers operated Sandpiper Airlines. Exteriors of Nantucket Memorial Airport were used for the show. Interior scenes were filmed on a sound stage at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California, before a live studio audience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(TV_series)

edit: sorry I don't know how to turn off the links in the text

Thanks TM ... I remember the show and the handyman but fuzz out on Hollywood names (except for Ronald Reagan and Charton Heston, of course).

Lancaster is 5th busiest in the state (behind PHL, PIT, ABE, RDG) with an average of 267 operations per day. It is actually busier than HIA (193).

What makes LNS have high operation counts is the student traffic. Look at Daytona Beach. What keeps MDT alive is air cargo and monies recieved indirectly to support the airport becasue of its military importance (193rd, support to FTIG and Carlisle, practice traffic, ect...).

MDT TRACON controls LNS RADAR services 24/7 as well as RDGs RADAR service from MID to 6 a.m.

RDG is another story. Has basically the same traffic as LNS but manages to keep a FAA tower and TRACON where as LNS is contract tower only. What politician helped who out on that one?

I agree that's it's absurd to fund this.

Nevertheless, flights to BWI are something I would actually use. (Southwest from there.) MDT is far enough away and doesn't fly anywhere direct enough that I usually drive to BWI anyway.

BWI is at least 20 minutes closer than Phillie from Hempfield.