Well, I’ve been research for over a year attempting to find out where it is that local airports are seeking airlines and destinations.  It is a pretty difficult task.  Fortunately, some of this site’s problems have been eliminated with its being accepted as a member of Routes Online:

The Routes business is focused entirely on aviation route development and the company’s portfolio includes events, media and online businesses. 

The company organises and operates world-renowned airline and airport networking events through its regional and World Route Development Forums. They are held in key markets throughout the year in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the CIS.

These events are supported by the online platform for air service development, Route Exchange. This area of the site provides airports with the ability to promote their market opportunities and acts as the airline industry’s central source of market data and route development information.

Routes also has other key industry media including an online weekly newsletter, The HUB and the world air service development magazine,Routes News.

Discover more about Routes today: see our event section for event programmes, attendee lists and host destinations or find out all the latest route development news and analysis in our news area, watch interviews with our delegates in our Routes TV section, join the Route Exchange area, where you can carry out your daily route development activities online, but first of all ensure your register with us and create a personal profile so that you can connect with the route development community online through our contacts area.

You will find all this and more on Routesonline, where the route development community meets!

Routes is a UBM Live brand

What I find disheartening is that there appears to be no interest in pursuing any additional routes into and out of Buffalo-Niagara International Airports.  I would have thought for business and leisure travel pursuit of direct and/or non-stop  flights to Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, would be an attraction since there are so few good flight connections via Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and a flight to Atlanta’s Hartsfield to go west just never made any sense to me.

I did find,  that both Hamilton, Ontario and Niagara Falls, NY have a good wish list of destinations.  Hamilton’s being more extensive.  With and an increase in the general population, business expansion, and leisure/tourism  travel growth throughout the Ontario Golden Horseshoe and the Niagara Region, low cost Hamilton and Niagara Falls would be attractive.  Particularly in a time of global economic distress.

I do have a  Niagara Falls concern,  after speaking  with local officials I got the distrinct impression that there was considerable interest in tourism/business flights to at least one Chinese and one Indian city.  Neither appear on the list below.

Well, we will see.  I wish both good luck in their efforts.  As well as I can ascertain, this is what both facilities are pursuing: