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Perhaps you’ve experienced this bit of airline travel frustration flying out of Amarillo.<\/p>\n

You book a flight, say, to San Francisco. But to get there you have to fly about 90 minutes east<\/em> to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where you board another aircraft and re-fly across land you’ve just watched out your window as you zoomed toward the Metroplex.<\/p>\n

That might change significantly.<\/p>\n

Amarillo aviation director Sarah Freese is negotiating with American Airlines to add another non-stop flight west to Phoenix — the one way out there in Arizona.<\/p>\n

Thus, the notion goes that air passengers might stand a better chance of avoiding the dreaded re-flyover routine.<\/p>\n

This is good news for those of us who like fly west once in a while.<\/p>\n

Understand this: I don’t fly too much. I do venture back to my hometown of Portland, Ore., on occasion. Sure, I can get there with stops in Denver or Las Vegas, which are served by United and Southwest Airlines, respectively from Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix route, though, gives travelers from AMA another option that might help them find a better fare than they otherwise would pay.<\/p>\n

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Freese received a Transportation Department grant to enable the city to seek the Phoenix connection.<\/p>\n

The aviation director noted that flying east “when you want to go west” makes you “want to beat your head against the wall.”<\/p>\n

Amen to that.<\/p>\n

Let’s hope the city finalizes the Phoenix route soon and makes even better use of its still-shiny new airport terminal.<\/p>\n\n

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Perhaps you’ve experienced this bit of airline travel frustration flying out of Amarillo. You book a flight, say, to San Francisco. But to get there you have to fly about 90 minutes east to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where you board another aircraft and re-fly across land you’ve just watched out your window as you … Continue reading AMA may get big new service boost<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[274,353,3945],"class_list":["post-17089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ama","tag-american-airlines","tag-rick-husband-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17091,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}