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December 14, 2006
Airline service takes off
By Janet Urquhart
The Aspen Times
December 14, 2006
Saturday will be the busiest day of commercial airline traffic at Aspen/Pitkin County Airport since 1998, when two now-defunct airlines were serving the local market along with United Express.
Both United and Delta boost their winter flight schedules today, but the resort's expanding air service really hits home Saturday, when 26 inbound commercial flights are scheduled to arrive - 16 from Denver, four from Salt Lake City, three from Los Angeles, two from Chicago and one from San Francisco.
"It's the busiest day the Aspen airport has seen since Aspen Mountain Air flew here," said Bill Tomcich, president of the reservations agency Stay Aspen Snowmass and the resort's liaison to the airline industry. In 1998, with United, Aspen Mountain Air and Mountain Air Express serving the resort, more than 30 flights came in on busy winter Saturdays.
This winter, both United and Delta have been expanding their schedules in response to demand, Tomcich said....Read the Full Article at the Aspen Times
Posted by jmidthun at December 14, 2006 10:21 AM
