Will AS/QX Ever Return to Idaho Falls (IDA)?
Mar 6, 2021, 6:41 pm
#31
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say WHAT?! yeah it's a reasonable guess, but the real KFS is on the other side of the world from LMT 
Mar 10, 2021, 11:09 am
#32
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It happened. Daily Q400 on SEA-IDA starting June 17.
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2021-...tes#assets_all
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2021-...tes#assets_all
Mar 10, 2021, 11:47 am
#34
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It happened. Daily Q400 on SEA-IDA starting June 17.
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2021-...tes#assets_all
https://newsroom.alaskaair.com/2021-...tes#assets_all
Mar 10, 2021, 11:57 am
#35
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Mar 10, 2021, 12:35 pm
#36
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Mar 10, 2021, 12:39 pm
#37
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Mar 10, 2021, 4:59 pm
#38
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All the Californians that left the SFBA in the past 18 months to move to AUS and BOI need to stay connected to one another somehow. I would not be surprised to see a fair amount of paid F travel on that route eventually.
Sep 27, 2021, 5:32 pm
#39
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The ONE flight out of IDA to SEA leaves at 8:10 am. Since all the car rentals either open at 7 or 8, are the 7's early enough to drop car, go through security, and make the flight? (I have no idea just how small IDA is). I really don't like dropping after (or before) hours, don't want to get into a he said/she said situation.
Sep 28, 2021, 12:50 pm
#40
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Dropping off before hours is not a big deal in a small rental station. Just snap some photos of the car, keep your gas receipt and phone to confirm the car is returned after they open.
Sep 28, 2021, 1:54 pm
#42
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I know "how" to do it, I just don't "like" to do it. Nothing makes me happier than when they print out my receipt, get in the car, and drive off. No, I have not had any issues, either, when I was forced to drop after hours. Once in Bordeaux, France which caused much angst with hoping I read all the signs correctly.
We'll stay in a hotel with a shuttle and just drop the car the night before. I was just commenting on the inconvenient hours of the car rentals at IDA.
We'll stay in a hotel with a shuttle and just drop the car the night before. I was just commenting on the inconvenient hours of the car rentals at IDA.
Sep 28, 2021, 2:58 pm
#43
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the other q is "when is this trip?"
unless in the next month or so, AS will almost certainly tweak the schedule at least once, so the point will very likely be moot
unless in the next month or so, AS will almost certainly tweak the schedule at least once, so the point will very likely be moot
Sep 28, 2021, 3:27 pm
#44
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Not until next year. Just hope they don't get rid of it completely, since Jackson Hole Airport will be closed much of next year.