Boise Transportation Thread

[isangpogi]

Hey great find! Any idea how old this sketch is? I couldn't find anything on this concourse A above what you found. Having a customs facility would be the first step to starting Int'l service to BOI, the second step would be demand... If this Zonda facility pans out and becomes a major employer in the area we would certainly see increased business and leisure travel, maybe enough to justify flights to Canada/Mexico?

So I understand that Alaska Air's year end announcement is on January 26th and new routes and destinations could be announced then. BOI-RNO would make sense, maybe even just once daily or less. WN's RNO service worked because of their connections beyond Reno. If AS flew to Reno most passengers would be terminating there.

One new destination that could make sense for Alaska is Salt Lake City. They already successfully fly from Seattle and Portland into other airlines hubs such as Denver, Minneapolis and Dallas-Ft. Worth. Adding SLC would be a direct aim at Delta, who Alaska partners with (but they already fly into MSP). If Alaska added SLC they could consider adding BOI-SLC service to fill the hole that WN left. This route would make sense if Alaska is concerned about SEA/PDX-SLC demand. They could fly a couple nonstops daily from Portland and Seattle to Salt Lake and provide additional service by connecting through Boise. There is typically high demand from BOI-SLC as well as high demand on BOI-SEA/PDX. Beginning SLC service would be a significant investment by Alaska, but SLC is the last major hole in their route map.