{"id":12365,"date":"2012-10-25T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2012-10-25T13:42:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T19:42:49","slug":"boise-loses-one-direct-flight-to-portland-fear-not-one-still-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/25\/boise-loses-one-direct-flight-to-portland-fear-not-one-still-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Boise Loses One Direct Flight To Portland, Fear Not, One Still Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12366\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/111676780.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12366\" title=\"Southwest Airlines Airplane\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/111676780-620x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/111676780-620x321.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/10\/111676780-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kevork Djansezian \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you tried to book a spring break direct flight from Boise to Portland on Southwest Airlines this week, you&#8217;d notice it&#8217;s no longer an option.\u00a0 Southwest released its April and May flight schedule this week, and <a title=\"Southwest Airlines Drops Direct Boise To Portland Flight\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/24\/southwest-airlines-drops-direct-boise-to-portland-flight\/\" target=\"_blank\">that direct connection<\/a>\u00a0is absent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you have a flight under two hours,&#8221; says Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins, &#8220;the traffic is just not there anymore.&#8221;\u00a0 Hawkins says travelers can still get to Portland on his airline, you&#8217;ll just have to go through Las Vegas or Oakland first.<!--more--><div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/19\/boise-airport-makes-a-wishlist-dfw-iah-atl-clt\/\">Boise Airport Makes A Wishlist: DFW, IAH, ATL, CLT<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/20\/flight-cuts-hit-midsize-cities-as-they-try-for-a-turnaround\/\">Flight Cuts Hit Midsize Cities As They Try For A Turnaround<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/07\/boise-airport-picks-up-new-airline-nonstop-flights\/\">Boise Airport Picks Up New Airline, Nonstop Flights<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/10\/24\/southwest-airlines-drops-direct-boise-to-portland-flight\/\">Southwest Airlines Drops Direct Boise To Portland Flight<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/08\/ChalkBoard_JeffreyCoolidge_getty-60x60.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/recession\/\">Defining the Recession<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Boise Airport director Rebecca Hupp is disappointed in the cut.\u00a0 She says it&#8217;s a challenge to convince airlines to maintain or expand air service out of any mid-sized airport, not just Boise, given the high-cost of fuel and airline consolidation.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Hupp says she&#8217;s able to present airlines with compelling reasons not to cut services. &#8220;We can present them with information they may not have access to about the market,&#8221; Hupp says.\u00a0 One example; if there are specific companies doing business in both Portland or Boise, that&#8217;s one potential customer base that the airline doesn&#8217;t get information on from Department of Transportation data.<\/p>\n<p>Hupp knows ultimately, the airline makes its decision based on cost analysis.\u00a0 She will continue to work with Southwest to see how that direct Boise-Portland flight could get added to the schedule in the future.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Hupp says travelers still have the option to fly direct from Boise to Portland on Alaska Airlines five days a week.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/15\/analyst-fewer-flights-from-boise-cant-be-good-for-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">has also cut flights<\/a> from Boise to Seattle, Salt Lake City and Reno in the last couple of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you tried to book a spring break direct flight from Boise to Portland on Southwest Airlines this week, you&#8217;d notice it&#8217;s no longer an option.\u00a0 Southwest released its April and May flight schedule this week, and that direct connection\u00a0is absent. &#8220;If you have a flight under two hours,&#8221; says Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins, &#8220;the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":12366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[176],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12383,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions\/12383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}