Originally Posted by
captain152
Seeing as how I fly for an airline that does several of these routes ... I can say that some of them are worth it, while others' aren't. I can't count the number of times I've flown to VCT, PQI, PKB, AOO, SHD, etc. with 2-3 pax on just one leg. Pretty sure I've done it w/o any pax a number of times as well. Most of these cities are a solid 2 hr drive (there are some exceptions to this of course) from any city with scheduled air service .. so it would be a pain to make that drive when you need to go somewhere ... but at the same time how often do people that live there actually have to travel??
Two hours is nothing. If people choose to live in BFE then why should we subsidize the 3 people in that community who need to go somewhere. It's not as though we are constantly airlifting medical patients. Having a strip for emergencies is one thing but subsidizing a flight so people can connect in LAX instead of making the drive is ridiculous.