Originally Posted by
Winston
As soon as the fracking boom came into being a few years ago, all the major airlines starting greatly adding and increasing flights all over BFE North Dakota and surrounding areas. I flew many flights filled with greasy dudes in Carhartt paying a lot of money to get to what seemed like the ice planet of Hoth in January.
If there is a financially viable reason for air carrier service, it will come. If not, it shouldn't exist.
Exactly. If there is demand for profitable airline service in an area, some airline is going to try to make money in that market. If there isn't enough demand from customers for regularly scheduled airline service, at least charter flights or fractionals are available.
Either way, the taxpayers should not be held responsible for spending millions of dollars to fly empty airplanes just so a handful of people can get a cheap airline ticket.