An Inside Look At The Old TWA Terminal At JFK

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10-08-2012 @ 5:35PM

Paul said...

You want to see something really bizarre? Visit Mid-America airport (BLV) terminal in Mascoutah /Belleville, IL! It opened up in the late 1990's and was all but closed down the next day. There has not been a commercial flight out of there for a decade or more yet the terminal is open everyday. No passengers, no ticket sales, no security, no concessions, nothing! They have a guy patrolling the area on a golf card with a broom and dust pan to pick up trash ghosts leave behind. I think they pay a guy to drop littler in the parking lot just to give this guy something to do!

This was supposed to be a reliever for Lambert in St. Louis but it never happened. STL built new runways and the airlines wanted nothing to do with Mid-America! The Metrolink light rail departs from a platform at adjacent Scott AFB and goes directly to STL.

I think the most business it ever had was Hooters air for charter flights. There's some outfit called Allegiant that allegedly is restarting flights to Florida in November 2012 after leaving BLV in 2009 but the web site doesn't offer any reservation offerings. If it goes as it has in the past, they'll be pulling out by spring. I think the most that flies into BLV are fresh flowers and produce from South America. Whoever is running that airport has a fleece job funded by taxpayer wasted money!

Please.... vote Obama / Biden 2012 and keep this waste of money going!

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