Kenmore Air Losing Money — Might Leave Port Angeles
If Kenmore Air doesn’t break even in 2009, they might discontinue service to Port Angeles.
According to Craig O'Neil, Kenmore Air marketing director, the company has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2004 when they started offering service between P.A. and Boeing Field in Seattle. And they don’t plan on raising air fares.
The Port Angeles City Council might allocate $10,000 in lodging tax revenue for a marketing project to help Kenmore attract more passengers.
Karen Rogers said: “This is not about an incumbent air carrier that happens to be Kenmore, it’s about maintaining passenger service for the general area of Port Angeles and Sequim and Forks, frankly.”
According to Craig O'Neil, Kenmore Air marketing director, the company has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars since 2004 when they started offering service between P.A. and Boeing Field in Seattle. And they don’t plan on raising air fares.
The Port Angeles City Council might allocate $10,000 in lodging tax revenue for a marketing project to help Kenmore attract more passengers.
Karen Rogers said: “This is not about an incumbent air carrier that happens to be Kenmore, it’s about maintaining passenger service for the general area of Port Angeles and Sequim and Forks, frankly.”
Labels: Craig O'Neil Kenmore Air marketing director, Karen Rogers Kenmore lodging tax, Kenmore Air Port Angeles
posted by Tom Harper at 4:52 PM
11 Comments:
The city council wouldn't give ol' Bob Stokes more dough for more of those crazy statues of his.
I dunno. Sounds like throwing money away to me.
If Kenmore Air doesn’t break even in 2009, they might discontinue service to Port Angeles.
Can't say that I blame them for that, it's just good business sense.
The Port Angeles City Council might allocate $10,000 in lodging tax revenue for a marketing project to help Kenmore attract more passengers.
Um, okay, now I'm starting to get amused. Attract more passengers for what? A shuttle to the gateway to Victoria?
I don't think that people are that stupid, they will just fly to Victoria instead.
Karen Rogers said: “This is not about an incumbent air carrier that happens to be Kenmore, it’s about maintaining passenger service for the general area of Port Angeles and Sequim and Forks, frankly.”
Franky, Karen, you are full of shit, but I've always figured that you where full of shit and your own perceived self importance. There are other cheaper ways of getting here.
And that is why Kenmore Air is going to be leaving here one day. You can stand at the terminal and wave goodbye to the last plane leaving.
And good riddance to it. Politicians, full of their self importance instead on serving us as our public servants. *rolls eyes*
I could care less if we even had an airport here, it's just something for the rich to enjoy and expect us to pay for.
The outside economy comes to us in trucks, stupid. The airport is just for the well off to enjoy.
Hey, does Fed Ex fly into here? I'm just wondering. How about UPS?
Man, I so love to stir this shit pot, ha ha ha. Those idiots in city hall deserve that. :-)
I hope that woman has never reproduced, we have enough shit in the gene pool. :-)
Growth my ass, consider yourself lucky if you can just get by for the next few years while supporting each other, those idiots don't even know how to keep a swimming pool open let alone how to deal with a recession or depression.
Did you go to the home show? I was underwhelmed this year.
If you want this city ran right you need to get someone like Jack Harmon to run it.
He at least has enough brains to back away from a losing deal.
Not that Jack would want to be a politician, I don't think he is stupid enough to go there.
You know, into la la land, ha ha ha.
Kenmore Air has only been flying passenger air service into PA for a few years now. They took over when Horizon Air quit Port Angeles. Horizon quit because it was a money losing proposition. The fees they had to pay to land at Sea-Tac were high, and not enough passengers to cover it.
Kenmore Air thought they could do it and make it work by flying into Boeing Field where they could get in cheap and easy, and shuttle the people to Sea-Tac in a van. That seemed to be working, but in this economy, number crunching seems to be a problem everywhere.
"Does Fed Ex fly into here? I'm just wondering. How about UPS?"
Yes, BBC, both of them do fly into here. UPS flies in with a Cessna Caravan, similar to what Kenmore Air uses.
UPS used to use a Britten-Norman Trislander, and they quit using it nearly a year ago now. A photo of it you can look at here, since it is a rather odd looking duck.
(on the ground in Port Angeles)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thatguyeric/2164335669/in/pool-29434337@N00/
(and here in the air near Boeing Field)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/65483667@N00/337100634/#DiscussPhoto
(and here, on the ground at Boeing Field)
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Mountain-High-Aviation/Britten-Norman-BN-2A-Mk3-3/0163916/L/&tbl=photo_info&photo_nr=266&sok=WHERE__(aircraft_generic_%3D_%27Britten-Norman_BN-2A_Mk3_Trislander%27)_&sort=_order_by_photo_id_DESC_&prev_id=0170111&next_id=0162187
Hope these links will work, they will have to be copy and pasted. Or just go to the sites and do a search.
It was a very noisy mostly red and black colored plane with 3 engines, the third engine being mounted in front of the tail section. It was not very economical, obviously, and only carried a full pay load during the Christmas seasons.
It flew out of here daily usually between 5:20 and 5:25 pm. You could literally set your clock by it.
It was the only plane of its type in operation in the United States. I don't know who bought it or where it went from here.
Karen Rogers needs to stop throwing around our taxpayers money and let the chips fall where they may.
Do you listen to the Sandy Keys report on KNOP radio on Monday mornings?
It's a pretty good report on what the troublesome monkeys have been doing over the weekend.
You can drive to Sea-Tac and back cheaper than flying...until that changes (like $4 a gal gas again) they aren't gonna get much business.
I've gotta drop someone off at Sea-Tac this week...it'll cost me ~$60 one-way versus $90 for Kenmore.
I meant $60 round trip to Sea-Tac and back versus $90 one-way for Kenmore.
Instead of two other aircraft why didn't UPS and Fed Ex use Kenmore Air?
I suppose they have their reasons for not doing that but I don't know what they are.
Sixty dollars? Boy, even my Dodge Dakota pickup gets much better mileage than that. I can do that trip on less than a tank of gas and my last tank cost me 33 bucks.
yeah, but if you figure in parking and the time...Kenmore (especially their online fares) are a deal.
The problem is, I don't travel much anymore.
Yeah, I take that back...it'll cost me about $35...I get about 18-20 mpg with my evil SUV on the highway. So it's even more reason to not take Kenmore! I enjoy driving, listening to some tunes in my big comfortable tree-hugger-despised evil SUV! Got a Mini-Cooper stuck in my grille the other day! LOL.
Anonymous 11:32: I won't be parking, just droppin' him off and cruzin' back home.
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