Mammoth Mountain, LA’s favorite snowboard resort, has been fighting for years to become a destination resort.
Now, for the sixth time in its history (Desert Airlines, Sierra Pacific Airlines, Wings West, Alpha Air, and United Express have all failed), the mountain is pleased to announce that an airline will begin daily flights to Mammoth Yosemite Airport (or Bishop airport if it’s storming) staring tomorrow December 18, 2008. This time around it’s Horizon Air. And the flights leave LAX at 2:20 PM every day.
Mammoth’s master of hyperbole CEO Rusty Gregory is over-joyed. . . obviously:
“Horizon’s inaugural flight to Mammoth Mountain is one of the most pivotal moments in the history of the resort and the town,” said Rusty Gregory, CEO of Mammoth Mountain. “The air service transforms a five-plus hour drive from Southern California into an hour’s flight, making Mammoth even more convenient to experience.”
Well, let’s do the math: to get on the flight most people will have to drive at least an hour to get to LAX and park. Then they have to be there an hour early to clear security. The flight takes one hour, and the drive into town is 15 minutes, unless you’re forced to land in Bishop, then it’s an hour. So best case flyers could save one hour, or if it’s storming, no time at all. Also, flying requires packing and un-packing all the gear four times and when you get there, you don’t even have a car.
But, ah, good luck with that Horizon Air.
[Editors’ Note: We couldn’t pass this addendum regarding the new route’s first flight: “The plane landed about a half an hour late, as leaving Los Angeles had been slowed down by weather and other connector flights. —Examiner.com]
[Link: MarketWatch]
Hey Rusty – remember that time you had all the employees ride down the street in golf carts throwing out balsawood gliders that said “Air 2000” on them? Then nothing?
That had me spinning in my…
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