Allegiant Air Close to Coming!
Posted on January 24, 2006
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WARREN - Allegiant Air denies that plans are set for next month to unveil flight service to Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport, but won’t rule out that an announcement will be made then. “As of today, no,” Tyra Squires, a spokesman for Allegiant, said of a February declaration. “It’s still possible.”
The airline has engaged in “serious conversations” with representatives of the Vienna airport, she said. But the parties aren’t prepared to reveal the outcome of those talks, she said.
Squires said the airline normally announces the start of service 60 days prior to the start of flights.
Steve Bowser, director of aviation at the airport, would not comment on the negotiations with Allegiant. “Our position was, and continues to be, that that kind of announcement will come from the airline,” he said.
Joseph Maxin, chairman of the Western Reserve Port Authority board, which oversees the airport, said Allegiant - not the board - would schedule the timing of an announcement.
“We’ll wait to see what the airline has to say,” the chairman said.
Last week, Allegiant announced expanded service to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rockford, Ill., and Green Bay, Wis. It also said at that time that it would begin flights to Topeka, Kan.
The airline has been operating since 1997. Its closest service to Youngstown-Warren is in Toledo.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant says it offers low-cost, nonstop jet flights to Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla. All trips are ticketless and one way, with normal costs ranging from $89 to $199. The airline brings customers from 29 markets to Las Vegas and from 14 markets to Orlando.
Discussions with airlines have been held under a campaign to market the airport conducted by Rubenstein Associates of Liberty. It produced an announcement last year that Pan Am Clipper Connection would offer flights to and from select leisure and business destinations.
But Pan Am later dropped its plans to start service at Youngstown-Warren in the fall. The airline took the action when the port authority decided it should not provide money to promote Pan Am’s operations while it was being investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Before that problem took place, Vacation Express began operating at the airport in April 2004. But it suspended flights that September. Trumbull and Mahoning counties had each contributed $150,000 to subsidize the airline.
In other news still no email from Vic Rubenstein; the minute I receive it I will post it on here. Sorry for the delay but apparently Vic Rubenstein forgot about it?
FlyYNG
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Your buddy Vic isn’t the one who got the deal with Allegiant as close as it is to reality. It sure wasn’t Winner either!
You are all assholes on here, why not stop the insanity and use your own money for this shiy hole of an airport.