Peoria Station

LEFT: Frontier Airlines Airbus A-319 (seen at Milwaukee 5/1/10); RIGHT: United Express ERJ-145 (seen at Peoria 7/23/11) United Express is doubling its Peoria-Denver flights from one to two daily, the Journal Star is reporting this afternoon. Starting June 2, flights will depart at 8:15am and 1:30pm on 50-seat jets. This should hardly come as a [...]

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           A Frontier Airlines Airbus A-319 is shown May 1, 2010 about to land at Milwaukee’s Mitchell Int’l Airport The Pantagraph is now reporting Frontier Airlines’ interest in returning to Central Illinois Regional Airport: Frontier Airlines confirmed its interest in the Twin City market Friday, and Bloomington Mayor Steve Stockton said Washington, D.C., and Denver [...]

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Sometimes this is just too easy. Shortly after AirTran Airways announced it was ending its service to Bloomington-Normal, I predicted they’d target Allegiant Air as a “replacement” carrier. And they did. Twice-weekly Orlando (Sanford) nonstops begin May 16. I also predicted they’d target Frontier Airlines in this post. Frontier Airlines – Having already served CIRA [...]

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 The Illinois & Midland RR’s Powerton Roadswitcher is shown in a videocapture approaching County Highway 7 located about half-way Powerton and Manito. Back in November, I mentioned my lack of recent photos/video of the Illinois & Midland Railroad’s Powerton Roadswitcher. I posted a profile of this train regardless but had to use material from early 2010. I [...]

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I didn’t see this article online, and only discovered this evening that it appeared in the Journal Star’s January 18, 2012 print edition. But better late than never, right? I guess it’s good news that Peoria Int’l Airport saw a 0.4% increase in passengers in 2011 vs. 2010 – just 513,573 passengers. Yet 2010 saw a 3.9% [...]

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Soon, I will post a detailed analysis on Norfolk Southern’s D46D train. But first, I mentioned here that if I ever saw Illinois & Midland’s Powerton Roadswitcher make an Havana turn, I’d post another detailed analysis. Well…I did see it. Last Monday in fact. So I’ll post this one before the NS train. Meanwhile, feel free to [...]

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I guess they have to spin it somehow. Per Journal Star online article about Allegiant Air starting twice-weekly flights from Bloomington-Normal to Orlando (Sanford), Florida May 16: Gene Olson, director of airports for the Metropolitan Airport Authority of Peoria, said he believes Allegiant moving into Bloomington will have no impact on service out of Peoria. Obviously, [...]

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Bloomington-Normal’s Central Illinois Regional Airport can rejoice that they’ve snatched twice-weekly nonstops to Orlando-Sanford International Airport on Allegiant Air beginning May 16. But the airline industry suffers turbulence, and AirTran Airways’…er, Southwest Airlines’…decision to withdraw service June 3 may not be the last cutbacks CIRA must endure. I don’t normally give much credibility to anonymous comments [...]

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WEEK TV-25 is reporting that Allegiant Air starts service to Bloomington-Normal’s Central Illinois Regional Airport (CIRA) on May 16. So it’s official: Peoria has lost out to Bloomington on another air service opportunity. At the very least, this is disappointing. Peoria should have been first in line to get this route. After all, we had it [...]

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Central Illinois Regional Airport is set to announce new air service at a news conference Tuesday morning. Interestingly, this comes as Allegiant Air posted this on its facebook page: We are announcing a new route in a new city tomorrow! Can you guess what city we will be getting Allegiant vacations to Orlando? There are already 246 comments. [...]

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