- Dates
- 2008-12-22 – 2009-01-05
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- transportationcommunicationcommerce
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Island Airways announced a holiday fare special of $41 one way for adults, covering December 22, 2008 through January 5, 2009, and promoted the live Welke Airport webcam.
Evidence limits
This is a fare and service announcement, not a ticket-sales report or archived webcam record. The October forum report separately documents a temporary Powers Hardware webcam outage and recovery; it should not be conflated with the Welke Airport webcam mentioned in the December Beacon.
Sources
- The Powers Hardware operator said a temporary internet problem had taken the webcam offline and then reported it working again; the Chamber said it featured the camera on beaverisland.org and reported 65,000 annual site visits. These are operator and Chamber statements, not uptime data or independently audited traffic measurements.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000909
- Powers Hardware announced a live Paradise Bay webcam supplied with technical help from Jeffrey and Forrest Powers. The forum establishes the earlier community/business launch of a webcam; it does not preserve a working camera feed or establish continuous operation.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000863
- Beaver Beacon, December 2008, "Island Airways Holiday Season Fare Special."Announces $41 adult one-way fares or an 11-ticket booklet for travel from December 22, 2008 through January 5, 2009, and says the Welke Airport live webcam was operating. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the fare and webcam notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-12_Beaver-Beacon
- A community post points readers to an Island Airways page described as carrying three live webcams. It corroborates public awareness of the airport/operator webcam service, but is not an uptime record or independent technical survey.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001318
- Powers Hardware reported that its webcam had returned after a hack-related resource overload, with technical efforts by Jeffrey Powers and Jeff Cashman. The post documents a specific outage and recovery, not continuous operation or the later airport camera.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001281
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Island Airways announces holiday fares and a live Welke Airport webcam, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-island-airways-holiday-fare-webcam-2008/, accessed [date], citing JFPowers and Chamber of Commerce, “Web Cam,” Beaver Island Forum, June 19–20, 2007. (and 5 further sources listed on the page).
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