PIERRE — Last week, the City of Pierre recommended a two-hub option from Denver Air Connection to fly eight weekly round trip flights to Denver and four flights to Minneapolis. Watertown officials shared similar concerns to Pierre in their recommendation to stay with the current six Denver/six Chicago flights…
Watertown Public Works Director Heath Von Eye says choosing the Twin Cities brought other concerns, like Pierre had…
Von Eye says there is less risk for Watertown in the status quo…
Eighty-seven percent of flights from Minneapolis are on Delta Airlines while United Airlines has 52-percent of flights from Chicago. The deadline to submit recommendations to the U-S D-O-T was January 20th. Watertown request and was granted additional time to make a decision by January 24th.
