Re: Airport Guide
Jenn,
I noticed that your list does not include Washington DC - Dulles via United Airlines. Hopefully United will continue to be pleased with the route, so we could get a mainline flight via 737 or A319 (757, hope hope) which might continue on (direct) to New York [wouldn't that be great, another route to NY] and maybe in addition to the CR7. And you'll have to add Baltimore pretty soon as well.
I wonder if something similar could be done with United's LAX flight? If the loads are good, could we see an additional flight with it continuing direct to Seattle, Portland, and/or San Francisco. Maybe it could rotate between the three cities (Monday - SFO, Tuesday - SEA, Wednesday - SFO, Thursday - PDX, Friday - SEA, Saturday - SFO, Sunday - SEA). I think we could 'assist' the airlines with these creative routings that would ensure we could keep the route and possibly use a larger mainline plane.
Other than that, looks great.
I do like to hear that Telemundo is doing lots of local work in OKC. Hopefully Univision can join them, along with the major market stations. There should be some kind of travel show or something - to promote the routes at Will Rogers. Hey, why not do a 'featured city' destination each week, where a specific city would be featured along with promos for the airline(s) which serve it. We have lots of audiences in OKC (and the state) and we should try to reach all of them and get them to fly from OKC.
Hopefully, we can continue to add cities to that list!
Would it be possible to convince Expressjet to do one or two OKC-TUL nonstops daily? I think we could focus a little effort on regional cities, using them to boost our coastal flights. We should have at least one flight from Wichita, Little Rock, Amarillo, Lawton?, COS and they could connect to the coasts (or international to Canada, YYZ and YVR would be awesome). This is something that is done very well in Seattle (and Portland to a lesser extent) and is the reason why SEA-TAC has high domestic pax numbers.
I just think, if we could be creative and get the word out - OKC could become a viable alternative to the major hub airports for providing reasonable access to the coast (and to our city) for cities in our region, which would help ensure we would keep our routes and grow our pax numbers.
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
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