Comments on Advance Indiana™: Direct Flights To London, Anybody?

RR has a lot of employees here who have to travel ...

2016-02-29T20:27:16.773-05:00

RR has a lot of employees here who have to travel to the mothership, England, and who are regular slobs like the rest of us, stuck in the back of the bus.

There is already a customs office as it is an inte...

2016-02-29T15:32:26.758-05:00

There is already a customs office as it is an international airport and there are non-stop flights to/from Canada and Mexico.

This strikes me as an opportune time for some &quo...

2016-02-29T12:57:53.261-05:00

This strikes me as an opportune time for some "enterprising" soul in the mainstream media or blogosphere to do a little research on the direct IND-SFO flight, how well it is doing, and whether the subsidy has had to come into play, or whether or not the free market has done its job....my guess as to who might be likely to do such a job would be the IBJ from the MM, or Gary or Paul Ogden from the Blogosphere....but certainly it is a public records issue since public dollars are involved -- do you think the IEDC and the Airport Authority (for data on flight sales) would be forthcoming? Just wondering...

And in response to a few other postings wondering what are the non-stop International destinations from Indpls, there are two (as far as I can tell) Cancun and Toronto.

What about customs? Will they not be required to h...

2016-02-29T12:27:20.874-05:00

What about customs? Will they not be required to have a customs staff?

The Colts NFL London game is the only one of the t...

2016-02-29T08:57:50.247-05:00

The Colts NFL London game is the only one of the three that isn't sold out. Wonder if the NFL is "encouraging" Indiana/polis during this week's Combine to make sure it is.

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/NFL

Indy will always be the "country cousin"...

2016-02-28T22:49:21.772-05:00

Indy will always be the "country cousin" of Chicago.

I'd be curious to know how much they're go...

2016-02-28T22:31:32.762-05:00

I'd be curious to know how much they're going to have to pay out to backstop this flight. I mean, they had to pay out to backstop the UAL flight to SFO and SFO is actually a market that there might be a reason to fly nonstop to. I'd also love to know what FEDEX's deal with IND looks like. Do they get priority for slots? I assume they do, because I can't imagine they didn't ask for it and I also can't imagine that our insecure "power brokers" didn't capitulate, just like they always do.

Like just about everything else in this town, our airport is totally mismanaged. With so much business in places like Lafayette and Fort Wayne now, IND should be marketed as a Chicago reliever. It's a low traffic airport (132 daily passenger flights vs. 600+ in SLC and 400+ in RDU...airports with similar runway configurations) but I've never heard that. As a Chicago reliever, it might make sense to roll the dice on some nonstops, but lets be honest here. We're marketing Indy to the airlines. They're not coming to us. That means we're gonna have to pay if we want the flights. Like everything else in the Indy business community, it is a fabricated fable.

"How many International flights are there...&...

2016-02-28T21:29:24.069-05:00

"How many International flights are there..."

Scheduled Direct Flights ... None.

Don't forget it gives Indy hacks bragging righ...

2016-02-28T20:52:57.896-05:00

Don't forget it gives Indy hacks bragging rights over other mid tier cities- to say we have non stop service to London. More of the same inferiority complex.

Indy can be a Whirled Caste or Classist City!

2016-02-28T19:46:53.832-05:00

Indy can be a Whirled Caste or Classist City!

How many International fligh ts are there...

2016-02-28T19:07:07.623-05:00

How many International fligh
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had the same thought, this coincides with the whol...

2016-02-28T17:46:22.638-05:00

had the same thought, this coincides with the whole nfl London thing; we're world class!!! yipppeeee!! I remember moving here in the mid 90s and circle center mall was opening and that's when the whole 'world class city' thing started (despite pumping raw sewage into white river); I vividly recall saying to a friend at the time 'sounds like a good phrase to make me want to hold onto my wallet'; fast forward 20 years, its worse than I ever could have imagined . . .

PENCE MUST GO

2016-02-28T15:13:28.909-05:00

PENCE MUST GO

Interesting thought, which would be even more inte...

2016-02-28T15:02:55.430-05:00

Interesting thought, which would be even more interesting if the inaugural flight coincided with that game. Pence will tell the IEDC to approve the subsidy and then lead a delegation of the usual suspects to London to see the game in person, conveniently planned just a month before the November election to showcase Indianapolis as an internationally-connected, world class city.

Any chance they just want to make it easier for bi...

2016-02-28T14:12:49.564-05:00

Any chance they just want to make it easier for big wigs to get the Colts game in London on Oct. 2? Then by the end of the year everyone will discover daily non-stop service isn't profitable from Indianapolis (even with subsidies).