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TD Burg

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I'll leave that to Ammons... and you'll leave that to Michael Wright... well maybe you should work on that!

Yea.... one good thing is they will be finished with a parking study at the Hair Port soon., so maybe if i influence the study enough we will get a parking garage at mighty TLH!

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I've been concerned about the American Airlines bit since I learned they'd sold American Eagle.

American Airlines selling American Eagle is actually a net positive for Tallahassee. The reason American did this is so that 1) they wouldn't be held hostage any longer by being short on aircraft to pursue new routes, because now they can contract with other regional carriers and have them fly under the American banner; 2) they can seek out contracts with regional carriers that have lower operating costs than owning their own regional service. It's very similar to what Continental did a couple of years ago when it canceled a large contract with ExpressJet in order to be able to get other regional airlines to commission flights with them.

The insider scoop from American is that a major push to divest the Eagle operation is so that they can expand regional jet flying out of MIA at a more rapid pace. I think in the end, this helps TLH gun for the DFW and ORD service, since we won't have to worry about the lack of aircraft actually owned by American being the only reason we don't get the service (like why we had to wait so long to get service in the first place).

It's interesting to see how WCTV ran a short news story on the sale of American Eagle a couple of weeks ago with the scary tone that it might doom American's service into Tallahassee. They should've done their due diligence by actually contacting airline officials to see exactly why this business plan is being pursued (because of expansionist motivations, not route trimming).

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It's interesting to see how WCTV ran a short news story on the sale of American Eagle a couple of weeks ago with the scary tone that it might doom American's service into Tallahassee. They should've done their due diligence by actually contacting airline officials to see exactly why this business plan is being pursued (because of expansionist motivations, not route trimming).

It was exactly this reporting that made me so concerned. Thanks for your knowledge on the issue.

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DayJet Adds more Cities

DayJet Corp. has announced expansion of its on-demand airline service network to 28 new destinations across Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi. The network expansion comes 60 days after the official launch of the company's jet service in Tallahassee in October. Effective immediately, flights may be booked to the following cities, dubbed DayPorts by the airline: Boca Raton, Daytona Beach, Destin, Fort Pierce, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Key West, Kissimmee, Lakeland, Leesburg, Melbourne, Miami/Opa-Locka, Naples, Ocala, West Palm Beach, Panama City, Pensacola, Punta Gorda, Sanford, Sarasota, Sebring, St. Augustine, and St. Petersburg; Dothan, Fairhope and Mobile, Ala.; Albany, Brunswick, Savannah, Valdosta and Waycross, Ga.; and Pascagoula, Miss.

Source: TDO.com

I'm surprised they didn't add Biloxi/Gulfport Airport. Plenty of casino traffic.

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Florida Megalopolis

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echo, echo, echo, echo!! ;)

I noticed that a while back and thought the same thing. Then Poonther gave me the same response. It would be nice to get another carrier, but I would think UAL would be more of the same.

My bad!! :w00t: I didn't notice before!

I agree, United would be more of the same.

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Florida Megalopolis

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Question for SkyDave or one of our airline professionals. I recently saw a story about Melbourne Florida getting a new lower-cost airline at their airport, USA3000 Airlines, who seem to have direct flights to several Northern cities. Would this airline be something Tallahassee could pursue for our own airport?

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Oops!

It's called SkyBus.

The airline. I saw a special on Nightline the other day. $10 flights to the first customers who purchase tickets. I think we (Tallahassee) could talk to these people about serving our airport.

Their Website

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I had a feeling that may have been what you meant. I saw that same program. It is an interesting concept.

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poonther Town

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I saw that Nightline too! :)

It's interesting that their Jax/Daytona flights, fly into St. Augustine. That's the first time I've heard of that airport having big time commercial service. Even I would drive the 3 hours over there for a $10 buck ticket. The negative w/them is that most of their flights go into Port Columbus (CMH airport) and CMH isn't much of a hub for anything else.....but if you are going to Ohio it would be a cheap way to get there!

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Florida Megalopolis

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858,817 passengers flew in and out Tallahassee Regional during the first 11 months of 2007. Decembers numbers would have to be as high as 129,616 just for the airport to meet what it did last year. This is unlikely the case.

So...

To use a few sports analogies... Your team isn't scoring as many points as it used to... do you:

  1. Recruit new players who can score baskets? / Perhaps a new coach?
  2. Continue to "work with what you've got" and hope they get better?
  3. Make excuses?

Or How about a financial analogy...

Despite the fact that you now have more customers in your market, your company's revenues have been declining over the past 4 years. Do you:

  1. Fire the manager and bring in someone who's had more success generating revenue?
  2. Spruce up your business to make it more attractive to customers, while keeping the same products?
  3. Buy into the manager's excuse that markets are down and we can do nothing about it?
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poonther Town

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Yeah looks like they will fall about 50K short of last year. Things did get a little better during the last quarter of this year, but not by much.

In your analogy, I'd be for #1 in both categories, however I'd do it by bringing in an independent team to run the airport and base their pay on passenger and flight increases. I'd also create an airport authority WITHOUT any County or City Commissioners on it like many cities have.

I've started noticing who is on what boards in the area and it's amazing how about the same 20 or so folks (mainly city/county commissioners) are on are most boards. Surely in a town this educated we could find others to help steer the community instead of getting the same visions from the same people ALL the time????

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Yeah looks like they will fall about 50K short of last year. Things did get a little better during the last quarter of this year, but not by much.

In your analogy, I'd be for #1 in both categories, however I'd do it by bringing in an independent team to run the airport and base their pay on passenger and flight increases. I'd also create an airport authority WITHOUT any County or City Commissioners on it like many cities have.

I've started noticing who is on what boards in the area and it's amazing how about the same 20 or so folks (mainly city/county commissioners) are on are most boards. Surely in a town this educated we could find others to help steer the community instead of getting the same visions from the same people ALL the time????

I also find it interesting, as you state, that the same people are on most of the key boards. I think the problem is, not many of us are given an opportunity to participate because they don't publicize the vacancies/opportunities.

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