{"id":8641,"date":"2012-06-27T11:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=8641"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:01:40","slug":"horizon-air-chief-in-boise-as-city-leaders-focus-on-air-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/27\/horizon-air-chief-in-boise-as-city-leaders-focus-on-air-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Air Chief In Boise As City Leaders Focus On Air Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8648\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 170px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Glenn Johnson is the president of Horizon Air.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/Horizon-Air.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8648\" title=\"Horizon Air\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/06\/Horizon-Air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glenn Johnson is the president of Horizon Air.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Early this year, Boise business leaders turned their attention to securing and maintaining strong air service in and out of the city.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce established a new travel committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/16\/as-airlines-drop-flights-boise-business-leaders-target-air-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">and made preserving and attracting air service its chief focus<\/a>.\u00a0 Flight availability, they said, is key to business recruitment and retention.<\/p>\n<p>Connected to that effort, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boisechamber.org\/cwt\/External\/WCPages\/WCEvents\/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=4977\" target=\"_blank\">Horizon Air president Glenn Johnson will be in Boise tomorrow<\/a>.\u00a0 As <em>StateImpact<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/19\/boise-airport-makes-a-wishlist-dfw-iah-atl-clt\/\" target=\"_blank\">recently reported<\/a>, Johnson will discuss Horizon&#8217;s commitment to the Boise market.\u00a0 In April, the airline <a href=\"http:\/\/boisestatepublicradio.org\/post\/horizon-air-base-flight-crews-boise-medford-and-spokane\" target=\"_blank\">announced it will base some of its crews in the city<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This month, Boise Airport <a title=\"Boise Airport Makes A Wishlist: DFW, IAH, ATL,\u00a0CLT\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/19\/boise-airport-makes-a-wishlist-dfw-iah-atl-clt\/\" target=\"_blank\">applied for a $1 million grant<\/a> from the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Small Community Air Service Development Program.\u00a0 If it\u2019s awarded, the grant will be used to try to attract direct service from Boise to a southern or southeastern hub, and to secure intrastate service between Boise and Sun Valley, <a title=\"Boise Airport Makes A Wishlist: DFW, IAH, ATL,\u00a0CLT\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/06\/19\/boise-airport-makes-a-wishlist-dfw-iah-atl-clt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boise Airport Deputy Director Bryant Francis says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <em>StateImpact<\/em> has <a title=\"Flight Cuts Hit Midsize Cities As They Try For A Turnaround\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/03\/20\/flight-cuts-hit-midsize-cities-as-they-try-for-a-turnaround\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>, Boise and other midsize cities have watched flight numbers contract as airlines respond to rising fuel costs and diminished passenger numbers.\u00a0 Read that story <a href=\"if it\u2019s awarded, will be used to try to attract direct service from Boise to a southern or southeastern hub: Dallas, Houston, Atlanta or Charlotte.  It will also be used to secure intrastate service between Boise and Sun Valley.\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early this year, Boise business leaders turned their attention to securing and maintaining strong air service in and out of the city. To that end, the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce established a new travel committee, and made preserving and attracting air service its chief focus.\u00a0 Flight availability, they said, is key to business recruitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":8648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[68,176,46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641"}],"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\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9702,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8641\/revisions\/9702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}