Festival Airlines Update

Call me crazy but when a company does a survey to find out where they are going to fly, it kind of scares me???

http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060614/BUSINESS12/106140059

— Festival Airlines this spring asked Rock River Valley residents to help choose the destinations that the startup airline will fly from Chicago/Rockford International Airport when it begins operations later this year.

Airport officials said that thousands of you responded to that request. In fact, 5,188 airport customers and people from the region returned surveys as of Monday, the deadline for a promotional event put forth by the airport to attract participation. Festival Airlines sent survey’s to 32,000 people who are members of the Chicago/Rockford airport’s MilesAhead customer appreciation program and customers who have registered with the airline’s Web site www.festivalairlines.com. Survey respondents were asked to look at a list of destination favorites and then rate the destinations.

Company officials have said that they intend to use the surveys to help determine the destinations it will serve. Festival announced in March that it would base its operations center in Rockford and that Chicago/Rockford would be the first airport that the national vacation airline will provide service from. At the time, company officials announced several possible destinations which the company will serve, including top vacation spots in the U.S., Mexico, Canada and South America. Festival could release a list of destinations in July, the airport said.