well, it's been nearly a decade since scheduled passenger service ended at Gary/Chicago Airport (GYY), and it looks like the airport is gonna make another try at convincing an airline to give it another go.
the 5 IN counties of chicago's CSA total some 830K people, so it seems to me that Gary might be able to support vacation runs to florida/vegas similar to allegiant's ops out of rockford, but allegiant already pulled out of gary a decade ago, and with their new service at MDW, i can't see them trying again. it'll likely have to be someone else, but who? we'll see what happens.
and with the runway extension from 7,000 to 9,000 feet, the airfield can easily handle any kind of domestic passenger jet.
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Gary airport taking another shot at passenger service
Andrew Steele
Sep 15, 2022
GARY — The Gary/Chicago International Airport Authority is making a renewed effort at attracting passenger service, nine years after the last Allegiant Air jet departed for Florida.
The airport authority board on Wednesday approved a contract with the firm Mead & Hunt to perform a series of analyses and forecasts, attend air service development conferences and set up meetings with airlines.
"This is one of the necessary steps to be able to attract passenger air service," airport Executive Director Dan Vicari said.
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full article:
https://www.nwitimes.com/business/lo...bc86a365d.html