CAK on Your Way Home Tonight

Tune in folks! 89.7 FM WKSU is doing a “Your Way Home” feature on CAK this evening beginning at 6 p.m. Amanda Rabinowitz, one of those hip backpack reporters we in the biz keep hearing about, was here for about 2 hours yesterday morning. She interviewed passengers waiting for an AirTran Airways nonstop flight to Orlando and picked our (Beth, Rick and yours truly) brains about what really makes Akron-Canton Airport tick.

She got the story idea from our record breaking October press release that we issued a couple of weeks ago. For those who don’t know, we had our best October on record with a 13% increase in customers compared to last year. That’s 15,000 more passengers in one month. She wanted to know what makes us different. Why do we continue to grow when all the odds seem stacked against us?

Well, in a nutshell, we are blessed. CAK has a savvy board of trustees who can make decisions quickly, an airport director who has always had a big dream for the place, a couple of wonderful low cost carriers (AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines) who took a risk on CAK that conventional thinkers wouldn’t have, and a veteran team who has systematically built an airport brand to support the new services added and a “failure is not an option” attitude.

Listen online at wksu.org tonight or tomorrow if you can’t listen on Your Way Home tonight.

Comments

Happy New Years to my neighbors out at Akron/Canton. Continue the tremendous work you do at your airport. Most airports are jealous of how well you have grown in just a 10 year span, and will continue growing in the future. I have flown it 10+ times in the last couple years, and will continue using it.

Right now my coalition of Airport Supporters are trying to help out the struggling Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport. They have done a successful job with flights to Orlando aboard Allegiant Air (ALGT-Nasdaq), but they have not done much since then.

YNG needs to look at how well CAK has done over the years and perhaps take some tips from you guys. You run a very successful operation and should be commended for IT! You earn my award for the best airport in Ohio and the best operation of any government funded operation in the region.

GOOD LUCK IN 2007!

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