Fairbanks International Airport officials are asking the Fairbanks North Star Borough to pledge $50,000 to $250,000 to help lure Condor German Airlines back to Fairbanks. The airline began service between Fairbanks and Frankfurt, Germany, last year on a trial basis.

"We made it through the inaugural season. Fairbanks is now on the map," marketing director Dave Carlstrom, who has been negotiating with Condor, told the borough economic development commission on Thursday. The problem, however, is that not enough Europeans are coming to Fairbanks to support the flight and Condor needs more Alaskans to travel to Europe.

To entice the airline, Carlstrom wants the Borough Assembly to underwrite seats on Condor flights in case not enough locals purchase tickets. He appeared before the economic development panel to ask that it endorse a resolution urging the assembly to act.

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