Who Says YNG Can’t Compete Head-On with CAK-CLE-PIT???
Posted on August 15, 2007
Filed Under General
Story out of Rockford, IL on how the airport has grown drastically in just 5 years!
Link: Name changed Helped Chicago Based Airport
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“The airport went from a passenger count of about 1,400 in 2002, when O’Brien started with the airport, to more than 230,000 this year, he said, with the name change occurring in phases through those years.
He expects to eclipse the 300,000 passenger count next year, but O’Brien said changing the name was only a small part of that.
“It starts first with convincing the airlines. When we’re trying to sell them on RFD, they’re staring at us like, ‘You live in the shadow of the world’s busiest airport and you’ve got no passenger service, what are you nuts?’ ” O’Brien said. “We said, ‘I don’t want you to start service to Rockford, Illinois, I want you to start service to Chicago-Rockford, a backdoor to 13.1 million people.’
O’Brien said the airlines slowly but surely responded to that notion, and as the airport grew to offer non-stop service - first to domestic destinations like Orlando and Las Vegas, and now to vacation spots like Cancun the community got on board, no matter what they called the facility.”
You can not tell me YNG can’t do what RFD has done in the past 5 years. With aggressive campaigning by the airport and the community, as well as providing #’s on paper to what the Valley wants in air service, I truly believe we can make YNG grow!
2012 Passenger Number Goal: 150,000 - Expanded Allegiant Service, 2nd LCC, 1-2 Legacy Carriers
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First of all there has to be the will or determination to move the airport forward.
Second there has to be some assessment as to where we are right now. What are the hard-core realities of the airport as of right now — the location, nearby airports, current YNG airport terminal and what it actually has to offer. In other words the current status.
Third, I believe an inflow of creative ideas given the “current status” already ascertained above. The creative ideas should come from anywhere, the community, airlines — virtually anybody.
Lastly, take the creative ideas in the left hand with the current status in the right hand and put together some creativity. Its sounds like fun to me. In my last post I mentioned the concept of “Convience Flights” Anyone could come up with an idea that might be worth exploring. In my concept flights out of other congested airports would be matched at YNG for the sake of convience for the flyer thus drawing them into the YNG fold.
Post your creative thought so that we can all benefit…………………….