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The point is probably that being a "nice" airport doesn't make it rise about third-tier airline connections.
Indianapolis Int Airport is constantly adding destinations, consistently ranked as the, or one if the, nicest/best etc airports in the nation, breaks it's own annual passenger totals annually.
It's ridiculously easy to access/use...attack Indianapolis' chances to land HQ2 as much as you'd like, but it's airport is actually one of it's strongest Attributes.
If the most important aspects of this site selection are logistics and a local talent supply, then that leaves Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington DC. No city west of Chicago or east of Philadelphia will be good for logistics, and no city without a university that has an elite tech, engineering or business program will be good for the talent they need.
Indianapolis Int Airport is constantly adding destinations, consistently ranked as the, or one if the, nicest/best etc airports in the nation, breaks it's own annual passenger totals annually.
It's ridiculously easy to access/use...attack Indianapolis' chances to land HQ2 as much as you'd like, but it's airport is actually one of it's strongest Attributes.
You're just not getting it. Indianapolis has a tiny airport in passenger count...wikipedia says 8,770,308 in 2017. It also it ranked #46(!) in boardings among US airports in 2017. That's a real weakness.
And despite your apparent opinion these things don't matter, in the real world of corporate relocations they do matter. The directness of routes, their frequency, and so on.
Yawn...anybody that is anybody with Amazon and it's vendors/clients will have corporate jets. Indy is the leading candidate, for a gazillion reasons many on this forum fail to get.
For Indy itself, if Amazon fails to choose it, Indy may well have dodged a bullet.
I'm sure you mean "Indy is the leading candidate" as a joke. If so, well played. If not...wow.
No, private jets aren't the thing with corporate locations. It's not about a few executives. It's about people traveling by the thousands per week from all over the country and world...recruits in town for interviews, employees traveling back to Mumbai or Las Cruces for for their vacations, rank and file vendors, employees heading for meetings in every corner of the world, and so on.
You don't seem to work in the business world, let alone in any field related to the topic.
Oh Lord, I've lived and worked in 9 countries. Setting up a company in Guadalajara Mexico as we speak. Told people over a year ago Indianapolis was the likely winner.
If Amazon is going for "opposite of Seattle," with a goal of attracting mid-career types with families who wouldn't move here, then it's a plausible candidate. Especially if cheap 'n' drivable are more important than indications appear. But you haven't helped your case.
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