Comments on: NEW NAME for the Panama City Airport

By: gz

gz — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:44:12 +0000

Airport identifiers can and have changed. JFK is one I know of off the top of my head.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:46:46 +0000

You people complain WAY too much. It’s just an airport, and it’s just a name. Why let something so minute bother you the way you all get carried away with the negativity??

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:45:04 +0000

wtf are you talking about??

By: Jason Koertge

Jason Koertge — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:36:53 +0000

You are absolutely right, the new airport will have little impact on the area without quality service. The Airport Authority has been in talks with Southwest, but no commitment has been made yet. I am unaware of any other “low-cost” airlines the airport authority is in talks with, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t talking to others, just that I’m not a very good “investigative-reporter”.

As far as international flights, I know they have been talking to Virgin and another British airline and both have expressed a willingness to pursue a relationship. Sorry if that seems vague, but the industry will not allow the board to release any specific information as to where they are in discussions as it is competitively risky for the airlines to allow a message to get out prematurely. Unfortunately this will be the case until an announcement is made.

With that said, it has been suggested to myself that any airline would be wise to make an announcement by year’s end as with the opening in mid-May they would need all the time they have to ready marketing materials/plans to fully mobilize in a new market. I think we’ll hear something very soon.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:29:40 +0000

Does anyone have an idea of what kind of service will be available from this “international” airport? I’m guessing we won’t be able to get direct flights to Europe, but will they be offering direct flights to other major hubs besides Atlanta? All this new airport talk is great and all, but it doesn’t mean anything until I hear what the service will actually be.

By: Susie

Susie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:44:41 +0000

Well, if they are truly going to look for a “NEW” name, perhaps they should look up the defination of NEW as opposed to USED. Do we not have anyone on the Airport Authority that is smart enough to come up with a name that is ours alone? Think of this a different way. When
the NEW shopping area came to the beach, it wasn’t named
Seaside – Panama City Beach or Silver Sands – Panama City Beach. NO, it was given a NEW name “Pier Park”. Let’s see if we can’t do the same for this multi million dollar airport. Think NEW……..

By: Leanna

Leanna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:26:52 +0000

printed encyclopedias? what are you like 90 yrs old???

By: Isaac Eiland-Hall

Isaac Eiland-Hall — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:43:28 +0000

You *obviously* have no clue how Wikipedia operates. How do you think dictionaries and printed encyclopedias work? Are the magically sent from the heavens with no interaction from mere mortals? Nevermind that you missed citations in the article because you clearly have no understanding of it.

Good grief.

By: Leanna

Leanna — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:30:12 +0000

oh you mean that wikipedia entry someone just made up and has in BOLD letters that this article does not site references or sources other than lord-knows-who wrote it? What do you think our Euro friends (aka Tourists using an INTERNATIONAL airport) would more closely associate emerald with?

And jeffM apparently thinks the “poor shmucks in europe” are too dumb to tell the difference between this and destin’s airport anyway!

So, BOOOYAH

By: Isaac Eiland-Hall

Isaac Eiland-Hall — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:51:16 +0000

If fact, Leanna, if you visit the Wikipedia entry for “Emerald Coast”, you’ll find that it lists our beaches – and doesn’t even offer a disambiguation page for Ireland’s coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Coast

That tells me that “Emerald Coast” is *not* applied to Ireland often at all. It is, however, known as the “Emerald Isle”.