The dominant airports offer more scheduled flights, customers like to fly on airlines they have frequent flier miles with, and people tend to feel safer on jets than on turboprop planes, they say. So you need to have something else going for you that makes you special. Location and convenience are two factors working in Lunken's favor. The airport is a 15-minute drive from Cincinnati's central business district, passengers can get to the gates faster than they can at the international airport and parking would be free, at least at first. D.C. Lunken is advertising for carriers in a daily aviation newsletter and will take submissions until April 10.
Plans are to have commercial flights by the end of the year.
But there is still significant doubt whether someone will bite at it or if it will be successful. The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.