MINOT (AP) -- Airport officials are surveying people to try to bring more flights to this city.
The survey asks people about their flying habits and new flights they could use. Airport manager Patrick Dame said the results will be given to Frontier Airlines, United Airlines and any other airline that might be enticed to consider air service to the West from Minot.
Officials of Minot and about 60 other airports submitted proposals to Denver-based Frontier in January. Frontier did not choose Minot for its latest expansion, but said it would announce service to more cities later.
"We are not out of the running. But we do need to, again, prove ourselves, not only to them but to other airlines," Dame said. "I am confident that we have the passenger travel that's heading that direction, but we just need the data to support our theories."
Dame said a United Airlines market study showed only four passengers a day interested in flying west from Minot. The survey is a way to show United officials their numbers are wrong, he said.
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The Minot airport currently registers more than 72,000 passenger boardings a year. Minnesota-based Northwest Airlines normally arrives and departs Minot three times a day.
