@Yorksan wrote: My "icing on the cake" airport is Elmira-Corning. Southwest goes to Rochester and Buffalo which are 1.5 and 2.5 hours of driving. For the service i get from Southwest it is worth the drive, but in the winter would be so nice to drive 7.5 miles down the road!!! Southwest...."can you hear me now....." 😉 That one looks like a challenge - some of the smaller airports in Southwest's network have 1-2 million passengers a year. PNS is one that I'm familiar with at 1.6M passengers per year, and that volume lets Southwest fly three planes a day through there making a HOU/BNA wheel with increased service during peak beach season. To support the year-round service on three daily flights it takes 100,000 passengers at PNS, and with 180,000 additional passengers on the seasonal routes. Rochester for instance is 2.3M passengers per year. Buffalo a little higher. Here is the data on "enplanements" and I think unfortunately Elmira will be a long-shot - your best bet would be to focus on better ways to get to Buffalo or Rochester. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_New_York Islip may be one of the lowest passenger volume airports in the Southwest network at around 800,000 passengers a year which Southwest flys about a third to a half of - even if they flew every passenger out of Elmira it wouldn't be at that level. Who knows though, send in your request on the Contact Us link so that they know!
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