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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 03:35:23 pm

Boofer
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The airport manager of FWA (Fort Wayne) complains that he can't compete against the low fares offered at IND...


Fort Wayne Airport Losing in Fare War
The Journal Gazette, Distributed by the Associated Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -- The top executive of Fort Wayne International Airport believes it is losing passengers who have been lured away by lower air fares that carriers are offering in Indianapolis.

Tory Richardson, executive director of the Fort Wayne airport, said Monday that the number of air passengers in June dropped by 13 percent compared with June 2004. The airport had seen passenger increases since September 2003, excluding a 1.5 percent decline last December.

He said that while fares were rising in Fort Wayne, they were dropping in Indianapolis, about 100 miles away.

''(People) are still flying. They're just not flying out of here,'' Richardson told the airport's board of directors.




Read the rest at:http://www.airportbusiness.com....jsp?siteSection=1&id=2775

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Indy

Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 07:26:28 pm

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This isn't just harming FWA. I feel confident it killed Lafayette and is hurting the CVG O/D.

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Boofer

Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 05:05:45 pm

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It definitely killed Lafayette. It's probably hurting SBN as well. I also know a lot of people who drive over from central and southern Illinois rather than using CMI or Effingham. And IND's effect on o&d traffic at CVG has been understood for a couple years now. It's the main driver behind DL's SimpliFares program there.

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