Your input needed for Lewiston to Boise flights

Your input needed for Lewiston to Boise flights

by Armen Araradian

Lewiston-Nez Perce County{ } Airport Survey for Charter Air Service.

LEWISTON, ID —

The Lewiston-Nez Perce County Regional Airport is moving closer towards the possibility of getting a flight to Boise back according to Interim Airport Manager, Chris Clemens.

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The Lewiston Airport has created a survey on what you, the passenger wants, for the sole purpose of trying to get input to see what area residents want for a flight to the capitol of the Gem State.

Go to the Lewiston Airport’s website and you will see this large red banner. It’s a survey for scheduled charter air service.

"We're trying to gauge the interest in a Lewiston to Boise service,” said Clemens. “And not only gauge the interest but also specifically determine what times of day people need to be in Boise. Whether or not they want to return the same day from Boise back.”

Interim Airport Manager Chris Clemens says it’s a first step for a flight from Lewiston to Boise.

"The wheels are in motion for that,” added Clemens. “But again, we want the loadout to be successful and so when the first plane leaves we want that plane to be full. And we want every plane to be full."

That’s why he says the survey is open to minimize future risks.

"This is going to be an investment and like any investment, people want to minimize their risk and so we don't want empty planes flying to Boise, we want them to be full as we can possibly make them,” says Clemens.

Minimizing risks with Boise is also part of the plan.

"We'll work with Boise and try to make sure that the flights that return here are full as well, said Clemens. “We want it to be a partnership between the two."

The survey asks what days and times air service to Boise is needed.

"We'd be looking at about a 6 a.m. departure here which would put people around Boise in 8 o'clock their time,” Clemens says.

Those times are just from preliminary data.

"It'll be a chartered service, but it'll be scheduled charter,” Clemens said.

A charter plane carries around six to nine passengers. But the airport’s goal is for you to be able to book tickets online just like you would with SkyWest or Delta.

The survey has been completed around 500 times so far, but Clemens is hoping it gets to a thousand by the time the survey closes in around a week.

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If you’d like to take the survey, it’s on the airport website and Facebook page, along with your local Chamber of Commerce.

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