KarlB737 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 2925 posts, RR: 9 Posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 2448 times:
In a writeup from USAToday it was announced that Allegiant Air will depart from Redmond, Oregon on August 12th. Airport officials believe that at Redmond they cater more to business fliers so with the departure of Allegiant it verifies what they have suspected. Consultants are currently assisting the airport to find out what destinations the local fliers want.
Again, with this Allegiant departure it will free up aircraft for somewhere else. Any bets?
Courtesy: USAToday
Allegiant Air Pulling Out Of Central Oregon Airport
dlramp4life From United States of America, joined Jun 2011, 697 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 2309 times:
I was expecting this to happen when AZA went to a sesonal route... It is what G4 does set up shop at one airport and than when loads go down, move on to the next one.
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ramprat74 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 1455 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2149 times:
I would never of thought RDM caters to business travelers? The area is a getaway place to go for some sun and fun for most Oregonians. It's mostly sunny year round. You have Mt Bachelor, Sunriver, many large lakes, golfing, Deschutes river and other high desert activies. It's too bad they are losing an airline.
HiFlyerAS From United States of America, joined Jul 2011, 604 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2144 times:
RDM caters to well-heeled leisure travelers....not exactly G4's typical customer.
FATFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 5667 posts, RR: 18 Reply 4, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2028 times:
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2158 posts, RR: 4 Reply 5, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2000 times:
Quoting ramprat74 (Reply 2): The area is a getaway place to go for some sun and fun for most Oregonians. It's mostly sunny year round. You have Mt Bachelor, Sunriver, many large lakes, golfing, Deschutes river and other high desert activies. It's too bad they are losing an airline.
It's exactly why my folks moved to the Redmond area years ago, it is a vacation destination for us here in Oregon and Washington. I'm surprised G4 can't make RDM work, at least AS, UA & DL can. I remember living right in Redmond and hearing G4's DC-9's taking off over the town, you could hear it where ever in town you'd happen to be.
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smoot4208 From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 1224 posts, RR: 12 Reply 6, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 1949 times:
Flytravel From United States of America, joined Dec 2009, 523 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (11 months 3 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 1773 times:
If someone surveyed indicated a very high income, doesn't it skew the mean significantly? The analysis is using mean instead of median which is atypical. Some of the Allegiant airportsare from areas that don't have a high local median income if that means anything.
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2158 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (11 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 1080 times:
Quoting SSTeve (Reply 7): They're pretty limited without connections
Yes G4 is limited, Redmond / Bend area has maybe 125,00 people, that's not a lot of base for flying. I know there are markets G4 serves that have less, but Bend / Redmond was really hit hard by the economy, although Roberts Field just finished the airport and tripled it's size. This was approved when Redmond was the fastest growing area in Oregon.
The old saying, "build it, and they will come" is not really applying here. RDM has grown from 2 RW flights a day and a few JT SWM's or PAG's, but has not seen mainline since RC bought RW and dropped the SEA-PSC-PDX-RDM-LMT-RDD-SFO DC-9's single daily runs in each direction. I guess QQ made a quick in and out, and Pacific Express BAC-1-11's.
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