Allegiant Air to announce new destination this month - but won’t fly there from RFD to start

February 4th, 2009 at 12:11pm Thomas V. Bona

Allegiant Air has announced a contest to guess its new destination, and lists the 12 cities that will get the service first. Rockford isn’t one of them. All the cities are west of here - the closest are Des Moines, Iowa, and Springfield, Mo.

Here are the cities that are getting the destination to start.

Obviously, I can’t enter the contest myself. But my smart readers sure can. My educated guess, based on what Allegiant’s said in the past and on the geographic makeup of the winning cities, is San Diego. Oakland (billed as San Francisco) seems to close to Monterey, Calif. I don’t think they’re ready to try an LA-area airport just yet. And I think we woulda heard more noise if they were ready to go to Mexico. But what’s throwing me is Fargo, N.D., which is like 1,400 miles from southern California. That’s pretty far for an airline looking to keep stage lengths at around 1,000 miles or less.

Maybe they have a trick up their sleeve, like Jackson Hole, Wyo., or the Denver area. But as my astute editor said, who in Fargo wants to go to more snow? So I’ll stick with San Diego. But I’ve been wrong before.

(EDIT (2:54 pm): Looks like it’s a “sunny” destination, according to Allegiant.So I’m voting San Diego.)

(EDIT (3.53 pm): Allegiant says to “think big”. Now I’m wondering if they’re going for the LA area. I’ll still vote San Diego, but that’s not what I would think of as “big” compared to other options.)

What do you think, dear readers?

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