Northern Pacific Airways, CEO, Rob McKinney at CAPA’s Americas Aviation Summit 2023
Northern Pacific Airways, CEO, Rob McKinney spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Americas Aviation & LCCs Summit in Ontario, California in Apr-2023 about the latest industry trends and company developments.
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Transcript
Rob McKinney:They're filling up nicely. People seem to be excited to have yet another option to get to Vegas. Seems like you could probably put an infinite amount of seats between LA and Vegas and they will still do really well. But we're really excited to offer— have this new offering with a really high-end airplane with this appointed very, very nicely. And yeah, we're in process with all the final Sure. So we're out in the market selling charters right now. Well, we're still working through the hurdles with the closure of the Russian airspace. When you have flight crews and big jets, you need to keep them busy. So while we work on our network plan here domestically and maybe some here in North America, we're also going to deploy the assets in the charter market. Oh, absolutely. We've already invested $6 million in outfitting the North Terminal. We have a first-class passenger lounge just to accommodate the charter market. And we're looking to expand that. Waiting to go. Our ticket counters are already there waiting to go. So absolutely, the original business plan is still alive and well. It's just in this business you have to kind of navigate, and there's always hurdles and stumbling blocks, and we're just figuring our way through that. But we believe that what our— who we model, Icelandair on the Atlantic, is still doing very, very, very well, and we're going to do just as well over the Pacific.
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