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One thing I could never figure out was how you have so many NW BIS miles. You have been flying them for what, maybe 4 years? That works out to more than 300K per year. If you are doing that kind of travel, who cares if they count segments? Does your counter include all miles or just status miles?

No, when I started flying, I flew Republic...then NW bought them...Flew them for many years. My territory was changed, so I switched to DL. That's why so many NW miles..And, those are total miles , not BIS. NW does not have a MM program like DL.

I would drive to SYR before I flew GhettoWest. That's just me.

Didn't DL only have 1 NS flt. to/from ATL and 2 to/from JFK from BGM?? Seems tough to match up these few flights for a lot of travel.

Now the world makes sense again. :)

The former Standiford Field = SDF

Banning, CA doesn't have service from JFK or ATL. I believe you mean BGM. :p

Lehava

So sorry to hear that dear old Link field is losing a primary tenant. I used to go to BGM from DFW back in the 80's, and I got to spend some nights in Pittsburgh and some in Flushing (there was commuter service to LGA) but it was always fun to get there and have a spoedie.

One problem, as I recall, is that the airport is sort of on top of a mountain. This makes the weather highly unpredictable, to say the least.

That is the current schedule but you need to know the history here:

since Delta came to BGM until June 8, 2006...BGM-CVG - varied between 2 and three flights a day (this is what we lovingly refer to at BGM now as "the good old days"). These flights were comair, the staffing was great and they had a VERY high on time reliability. I could count on getting in early in both directions.

June 8,2006 (The day the widget started to die at BGM) until May 2007 - 2 flights a day BGM-ATL and back. Loads really good on these flights, reliability bad but improving, a ton of cancellations in the first few months which really turned people off (this was during the runway closed at ATL days).

May 2007-Present JFK added, 2 flights a day, one ATL retained. Horrible reliability on the JFK, they brought in props for it in early June. It runs HOURS behind usually. The ATL has suffered also because what they have done is run an ATL-BGM-JFK route as the inbound, and if JFK is holding they usually delay it in ATL not here.

Yes we sit on the top of Mt Ettrick, but I can say the weather at the airport really isnt an issue. I have only once in all the years I have been flying out of here had an inbound diverted for the weather, and normally cancellations are about the other airport not BGM. Our grounds folks do a PHENOM job keeping our little airport open.

Here is a great piece on BGM's history for anyone interested http://www.binghamtonairport.com/avi...ionHistory.php

Oh and Spiedie fest is coming up in a couple weeks, fly in on DL while you still can *smile* http://www.spiediefest.com/

And if you dont know what a spiedie is you are missing out big time *smile*

Too Little too late, but it looks like our senators are trying to cover their butts on this http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pb...707150333/1006

Hillary is here on Tuesday, cant wait to hear her spin this one. Had our economic issues been dealt with in the past by our leadership this wouldnt be going on.

While I would LOVE to see the service saved, it will only be for however long and then we will be right back here...........

I used to love those things, but noplace other than BGM seems to have them. Oh, well, at least we have Tex-Mex!

To the OP: It is an absolutely fundamental error to "love" a commercial airline. They are not in the game for love...

About the only thing that is certain is that things will change.

Lehava - I realise it isn't much consolation, but at least you have other airlines serving BGM. There are plenty of places with only a single airline.

Anyone remember Mohawk Airlines back in the 60s? Binghampton, Ithaca, Elmira, Glens Falls, Jamestown, Oneonta, Watertown, Massena, and Plattsburgh in addition to SYR, UCA, ROC, BUF, ALB. They REALLY had upstate covered!

Their HQ was Utica, I believe. That would make a great trivia question: What city was once the HQ for an airline but currently has no air service at all?

Edited to add: Just recalled Empire Airlines... I believe they also had a HQ at UCA before shifting most of their activity to SYR. So that would make UCA the former HQ for two jet airlines... now zilch!