Baffled by air service out of TLH
Editor, The Sun:
I am baffled by the anemic air service provided by TLH.
Tallahassee is the capital of the 3rd most populous state in the Union. Folks are moving into FL in vast numbers. Sure, SoFL is receiving the bulk of those moves but NoFL is getting a lot of play. Tallahassee is home to two universities and one state college. It is the center of everything political in Florida. The world’s largest mag lab is in Tallahassee.
Yet, Team TLH can only provide two commercial carriers with another “penciled” in to start this summer. There are numerous announcements of a new “international” terminal and I just have to laugh. Why is an international terminal required when TLH can’t even get domestic travel to Houston or Chicago?
Not only is air service at TLH anemic, Team TLH is getting their pants spanked by much smaller airports. Take MTJ for example. Tallahassee has around 200,000 in population where as Montrose County’s population is around 43,000. Yes, Montrose is the gateway to Telluride but Tally has the universities and it is the capital of Florida.
MTJ has four commercial carriers with direct service to Denver, LAX, DFW, Dallas Love Field, Houston, Chicago’s O’Hare and Phoenix, In addition to direct service to the aforementioned gateways, larger mainline equipment is utilized, unlike the tiny regional equipment primarily used at TLH.
Perhaps, MTJ can adopt and operate TLH. It can’t get any worse, flying out of Tally, or can it?.
Robert Franco
Surf Road