Updates about Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (NWFBIA)

[Scooter]

Looking forward to your report SJ. The more I know about this airport, the sooner we may be able to build our home in Grayton.

 

[30A Television]

Update on the new Airport

Watch "Garys Good News reporting from the Airport"

 

[Dreamsicle]

Word on the street - YES, Southwest is coming to PFN - will provide direct service to Orlando, Baltimore, Nashville and Houston.

Great news for us Nashvillians! thanks for the update!

 

[Kurt]

$99 round trip to Nashville will make a nice weekend.

 

[Smiling JOe]

The report from a JOE rep, yesterday, was that Nashville will likely be a secondary hub for the PCB airport. He also said that the TDC taxes going to the airport will be part of what enables the discount airline to charge $99 flights to places like Vegas (I think he was speaking in general terms, rather than saying that we would have flights to Vegas). He also noted that, though it is not official, the PCB airport may have direct flights to London, and seasonal flights to Canada.

Other than that, I didn't hear anything new about the airport, but did enjoy seeing RiverCamps (a JOE development) -- I really like it, but the no-see-ums were not out (fortunately). It can be a real be-otch when they are out.

 

[Scooter]

OMG! If there are direct flights to London and Houston, we'll be building our house in Grayton asap!!!!!! Goodbye Atlanta!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bob]

Watch "Garys Good News reporting from the Airport"

great video, now about my reverse pivot..

 

[Will B]

I'm curious if Southwest's failure to close the deal on Frontier will have any effect on their route expansion plans...

 

[Smiling JOe]

I was wondering about that too. Sounds like SW was trying to increase their number of jets, and now may have to pay more to get them.

 

[bdub]

I was wondering about that too. Sounds like SW was trying to increase their number of jets, and now may have to pay more to get them.

I don think SW was interested in the jets -- but probably in the landing slots and in picking up a bunch of experienced personnel. Southwest ONLY flies the Boeing 737, one of the ways it has always been able to keep maintenence costs under control. Frontier operated mostly Airbus aircraft.

Not clear exactly what Gary Kelly was up to in the Frontier talks, but the only reason the whole thing did not come together was because the Southwest pilots could not come work things out with the Frontier pilots union on things like seniority, etc.

I admit to be a big fan of "the People's Airline." This is gonna be huge -- and if my intel is right, the announcement is not far away.