May 08, 2007

Charters For Starters

Whats new Rockford has another great idea. Instead of ever hiring another consultant, all we need to do is copy everything these guys do. To long to summarize, click here for the story in Rockford Register my blog favorite Thomas Bona.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting article. "Allegiant is not a fly-by-night". Anybody can play Monday morning quarterback, but losing Allegiant seems huge now.
Bob Obrien and Mr. Dunn seem like true leaders .

Anonymous said...

Rockford blogger

No question, Bob & Mike Dunn ARE solid leaders. We are fortunate to have them.

While charters for starters carriers risk (what doesn't in the airline industry these days) I applaud the effort. Ideally, the goal would be to have success with the charters thereby getting a regular carrier to take it over.
Clearly, we would love to see someone like Southwest, JetBlue, and/or AirTran to start service.
Even an airline like USA 3000 or Spirit would be attractive.

Also, Myrtle Beach is looking to restart service to RFD via their own charter airline called Myrtle Beach Direct Air.

Stay tuned.