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Travel time to an international airport with daily direct flights to Seattle, New York, San Francisco/Bay Area, and
Washington, D.C. is also an important consideration.
Travel time to an international airport with daily direct flights to Seattle, New York, San Francisco/Bay Area, and
Washington, D.C. is also an important consideration.
Interesting.
Any airport with gate space in the US could add that service in 5 minutes. Not a factor.
The twin cities have to be a player in this. They check a lot of the boxes.
The biggest limitations are the tight labor market and the fact that Minnesota doesn't like to throw out big subsidies to businesses (because it doesn't need to).
This is going to go somewhere with the following qualities:
-growing population
-relatively young/diverse demographics
-strong educational/tech background
-strong distribution capabilities
-lower business costs
-cheap land
I would love this more than anything. But can Dan Gilbert share the spotlight?
He's been working to try and get anyone he can convince down there. He's planning TONs of new space and I don't think the plan is for him to fill it himself.
I certainly wish it were that easy but usually airlines' determine expansion of service, not cities or airports'.
Good luck to all cities tho.
This is true, but the airlines would jump to add that service to whichever city Amazon selected.
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