A few weeks ago, SeaPort Airways began a new Spokane-to-Seattle route. What’s unusual is that the flights do not use the city’s two main airports. It’s a Felts Field to Boeing Field route. We talk with SeaPort founder and CEO Kent Craford about why he chose the cities’ two older airports.
This interview lightly edited for clarity and length.
Kent Craford: Our whole value proposition is to get people from Spokane to Seattle, allow them to do a full day’s business and still get back home to Spokane or northern Idaho, for dinner. So the whole concept behind SeaPort is cutting the travel time in half so you can do a day’s business in a day and have same day business trips again, not need to do an overnight at the same time…