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Old Jun 15, 2011, 3:46 pm
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fairviewroad
 
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Originally Posted by fairviewroad
The latest destination from Rockford is .....

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Well, I had consigned this one to the RFD rumor bin but it looks like transatlantic service from RFD is going to be a reality. "Flyairplus" has scheduled 13 public charters from RFD-ZAG with continuing service to BEG, starting this Friday. Some news outlets report that 2/3rds of the 3000 available seats have already been sold. Target market is the multitude of ethnic Balkans in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. Currently there is no non-stop service to the Balkans from ORD, so RFD swooped in and made it happen. According to the flyairplus website, the flights will soon have a tag-on to Phoenix.

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Oops. Never mind. Looks like the airline didn't do its homework.
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/brianlea...fore-it-began/
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