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Originally Posted by CastleScott
^ Gosh I wonder myself why SMF doesn't get into international flights more-like you said this being the capitol and such (especially with all these newcomers around here from places like India, Asia, Russia and Europe)-why not! One of my co-worker buddies told me that he always wondered the reason nothing more is done is because the airport sits in a flood plain and that it had been rumored that the air cargo operation and possible international flights would go out of Mather Field plus the feds seemed content to send more $$$ to SFO and LAX. I agree with you guys SMF has a nice layout-its close to downtown and really centeraly close to a lot of places. Heck why not stretch that 8500 foot runway to 10000 or even 12000. My co-worker buddy jokes sometimes that we saw a UPS 747 in the air cargo area (FedEx and UPS still use those DC-10s a lot).
Oh btw just a side note: SMF does have a rather large wild turkey flock-it seems that they live in the clumps of trees near the rental car agencies. Our building which is part of Terminal A gets a bunch of baby bunnies in the spring.
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Guess you gotta just convince the bosses at SMF to extend that runway and push for that Green Line project, that would easily boost passenger enplanements and deplanements. I even emailed Mark and Laurie a few times but they shut down my idea of expanding the runway because they said it doesn't translate to new flights/costs a lot of money. I hate how they won't expand the runway because it's been on their bucket list for a decade and nothing has been done.
How about desination wise? Any destinations the board is trying to get?
I hope that they are trying to get flights to Raleigh, Nashville, and Tucson; those are rising tech cities + Gov cities yet the airport can't get those big destinations. Heck, even our rivals down in San Jose got these flights!!!