How many cities are served by Spokane Airport?
October 3, 2010 8 Comments
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Spokane International Airport Route Map. Click the link to see where you can fly non-stop from Spokane. The Spokane International Airport (SIA) lists 13 direct flight cities as non-stop destination routes from Spokane.
I used Expedia.com and the Southwest.com web sites, directly, to check for flights between Spokane and the cities listed for a hypothetical flight in January 2011. (Southwest does not list flights on Expedia.) I only checked one day in January – it is possible that different days could have a different number of flights available.
Here is what I found in terms of directly served (non-stop) cities:
- Chicago – zero flights per day; discontinued United service
- Chicago – one daily flight in Nov 2010. This flight no longer exists on several dates checked in January 2011. UPDATE: As of Nov 2011, no Chicago flights are scheduled in 2012. Chicago flights are now gone.
- Sacramento has 1 flight per day
- San Jose, Ca has 1 flight per day
- Minneapolis has 2 flights per day
- San Francisco has 2 flights per day
- Oakland has 2 flights per day
- Phoenix has 2 flights per day
- Las Vegas has 2 flights per day
- Boise has 3 flights per day
- Salt Lake City has 3 flights per day
- Denver has 9 flights per day
- Portland has 12 flights per day
- Seattle has 21 flights per day
Perhaps I have miscounted or perhaps some flights might not be listed on Expedia’s or Southwest’s web sites. So I may be off a little. Please post corrections in the comments. And again, the exact set of flights and their count may vary from day to day.
It appears that Spokane International Airport
- serves 12 13 non-stop cities today; 12 in January 2011
- this is down from 15 non-stop cities in 2005 and 16 in 2004.
- this is 60 daily flights down from 70 daily flights in 2005
- has no scheduled international flights, in spite of its name
- has fewer passengers today than in 1996.
From a local economy standpoint, the airport’s passenger count is a rough measure of the local economy. SIA said in 2005 that the airport’s passenger count reflects the local economy, which suggests Spokane’s economy has experienced considerable weakening. The total number of aircraft operations (independent of passenger counts) would also go down as smaller aircraft, flying frequently, are replaced with larger aircraft flying the route less often (this has happened).
Beginning in April 2011, Southwest will eliminate their daily flight to Salt Lake City and reduce one flight each to Boise and Seattle. They will add one non-stop between Phoenix and Spokane for a net loss of 2 daily flights.
After the break this article continues with a list of cities that used to be flown non-stop out of Spokane.
Source
Spokane Economic And Demographic Data 
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