RFD not getting flights to St. Louis … or The Moon

2 comments February 20th, 2009

Chicago Rockford International Airport just sent out a release about its “Guess our next two nonstop destinations” contest. Since it started a couple of days ago, more than 6,000 guesses have been made.

Apparently Bob O’Brien has two destinations in mind because he said, “We’ve seen  some people guess correctly and we’ve seen some people whose gueses are, let’s just say, very unique destinations.”

The “unique guesses” that are wrong are: Bangor, ME; Baton Rouge, LA; Boise, ID; Cedar Rapids, IA; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Des Moines, IA; Freeport, IL; Quebec, QC; Quincy, IL; Rome, Italy; Santa Fe, NM;  Saskatoon, SK; St. Louis, MO; Wichita, KS … and The Moon.

St. Louis isthe only one on there that I think would be a serious contender sometime. Just not this time.

My guesses, for what little it’s worth, are Direct Air destinations Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. The former is a very educated guess (two of my blog readers agree), the latter is very wishful thinking.

Other candidates, I would say, are LAX, somewhere in south Texas or a Mexican destination. But Allegiant doesn’t seem ready to do RFD-LAX, and a Mexican carrier would seemingly need more time to apply for permits…

But Bob has surprised me before. Who knows.