“Wingless Flight” to DIA via Loveland Airport
October 6th, 2011
The Fort Collins-Loveland Airport is working on a one-of-a-kind “Wingless Flight” program that may very well take-off after recently receiving a $221,500 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to cover start-up costs. The vision for the program is to allow travelers to arrive at the Fort Collins-Loveland Airport, go through security and check bags, then board a secure bus that takes them directly to a terminal concourse at the Denver Internal Airport (DIA). As a result, travelers will be going through the arrival, check-in and security process with a smaller pool of people. Why travel via bus? The Fort Collins-Loveland Airport is located too closely to DIA in order to offer air service between the two locations. The “Wingless Flight” program could be the ideal connection.
Fort Collins-Loveland Airport officials now need to work with DIA, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), airlines and bus companies in order to turn the idea into a reality. Conversations with these key players have started and if a feasible implementation is agreed upon then the “Wingless Flight” could launch within a few years.
Source: Reporter-Herald, “Speedy DIA connection planned from Loveland airport” by Tom Hacker, 9/28/2011.
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