St. Louis Lambert International Airport Update
Director of Airports for St Louis Lambert International Airport Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge talks about long-haul destinations on the airport’s wish list, the latest developments in evaluations of potentially leasing the airpot to a private operator and the performance of the new Wingtips lounge.
Transcript
Rhonda Hamm-NiebrueggeObviously I'm more into Europe, so we would love to see any of the European markets, whether that would be London, or Frankfurt, or Paris, or Amsterdam, or Dublin, any of those. We're very excited about those. From a U.S. standpoint, we are very well served. So we've got a lot of the long haul markets on the U.S. side covered now, but really searching for that next European route. It's one of the on-going things that we're looking at. I mean I think it's like any airport, you just always trying to see, is there something else out there that we could be doing. So it's an opportunity to explore and take a look at it. It hasn't moved too far at this point, so we continue to work on being able to bring an advisor group on to take a look at the possibilities of it.
It's doing well. I mean we couldn't be more pleased. It opened the first week in January, and the expectation was that they would start slow and it would grow. They've been doing extremely well. Our customers love it. It's in terminal two, we did not have a lounge in terminal two. It had been an ask of our customers for some time, so there's been a great response to it, and we've got a flight to Iceland with WOW Air starting May 17th. It's directly across from the club, so we're excited and the customers have been telling us that, that's going to be a great amenity for them on that flight as well.
You know we continue to look at some of those shorter haul destinations. As I said, we've been very well served on both the east coast and the west coast. We just added Sacramento and San Jose. We just announced Portland ... not Portland I'm sorry, Hartford as well. So we're really pleased with the east and west coast destinations. We are looking at some of those mid-west destinations that we used to serve, like Indianapolis or Louisville, places that we haven't had for a while. So we're looking at some of those. Jacksonville Florida is on our wishlist. Places like that, that customers, especially with the local market and the connecting market combined, those markets now make sense for us, so we're continuing to work on some of those.
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