Here’s the Ithaca Minute for September 19th!

The regional carrier that provides Delta Air Lines flights in and out of the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport has eliminated two flights from its daily schedule to catch up on aircraft maintenance. Airport officials say the change is temporary.

Airport director Mike Hall says Skywest Airlines, which operates Delta Connection regional flights for Ithaca, has to catch up on deferred maintenance, so they’re keeping more aircraft overnight at their Detroit maintenance base.” As a result, the late-night flight from Detroit to Ithaca, and the early-morning flight from Ithaca to Detroit, have been removed from the schedule. Hall says the change is likely to last through “the fourth quarter of 2017, with resumption of full service expected early in the new year.”

And Ithaca College has scheduled a test of its emergency alert system “during the noon hour” on Tuesday, September 19. Sirens and PA announcements on campus may be heard around Ithaca. The outdoor system includes a siren tone and loudspeaker message, and the emergency notification system supports voice calls, emails, and text messaging. To sign up for voice, email, or text alerts, Ithaca College community members can go to www.ithaca.edu/emergencynotification and sign in with their IC username and password.

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