Horizon Air to Serve Sonoma County From Los Angeles and Seattle
Posted on: Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 18:00 CDT
Horizon Air will provide nonstop service from Seattle and Los Angeles International Airport to Sonoma County starting March 20, 2007, the airline said today at a press conference held at Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport.
Service from Los Angeles will be twice daily Sunday through Friday and once on Saturdays, and service from Seattle will be once daily.
Flight times and fares for the new service are expected to be finalized and available for sale in the next 45 days at Horizon's website, www.horizonair.com. Fares are planned to be competitive with the cost of flying into a Bay Area airport and making the 75-mile drive to Sonoma County, which can often take two hours in normal traffic.
"Horizon's new service will strengthen business ties between Southern California, the Pacific Northwest and Sonoma County, while expanding tourism opportunities among the three regions," said Patrick Zachwieja, Horizon's vice president of marketing and planning.
Sonoma County and nearby Napa Valley and Mendocino County are world-renowned wine-growing regions that draw millions of tourists each year. Horizon and its sister company Alaska Airlines already offer wine country vacation packages to Sonoma County via flights into the Bay Area. Interest in wine country tourism from Los Angeles and Seattle is expected to soar with the new, more-direct flights.
Sonoma County Airport has been without scheduled air service since another carrier discontinued service to San Francisco in 2001. Statistics show that among the airports that travelers fly to and from the five-county Sonoma County Airport region, Los Angeles International Airport ranks No. 2 and Seattle-Tacoma International No. 5. When all Los Angeles-area airports are included, Southern California ranks as the No. 1 destination for travelers from the Sonoma County Airport region.
Founded in 1981 and celebrating its 25th anniversary on Sept. 1, 2006, Horizon today serves 46 cities throughout California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and British Columbia and Alberta. In 2005, Horizon flew 6.5 million passengers, a portion of these on flights operated as Frontier JetExpress under contract to Denver-based Frontier Airlines. Together, Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines serve more than 80 cities and are subsidiaries of Alaska Air Group, Inc. (NYSE:ALK).
For more news, information and downloadable fleet photos, visit the Horizon Air Newsroom at http://newsroom.horizonair.com.
Source: Business Wire
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