The current airline industry uses a spoke and hub model to map flights across the world. Fargo obviously isn't a hub, it's at the end of a spoke. If you were able to establish an extremely low cost operator using older aircraft and have flights only to the largest markets and used Hector International as the hub for all connections, I think it would work. You'd want to establish an airline using Midwestern values of hard work and strong work ethic. It would also be more efficient as cost of salaries would be much lower out of Fargo.

This airline would also incorporate common sense to fill the planes to capacity... I distinctly remember offering to give Delta airlines up to an additional $300 for a seat upgrade to first class. They mearly scoffed at my idea and the seat went unused on both of my flights, and I kept my $300. If you make the system dynamic so people could, at the last minute, bargain for better seats, you'd make more money...

Also get rid of all the stupid ticket classes (Delta has over 30 alone) and just stick to common sense business tactics. Also incorporate strong technology ensuring check after check that a passengers luggage is NEVER lost (I can't believe how well FedEx and UPS can track items but the airlines are absolutely clueless...) Also passengers are #1!!!

With a burgeoning new airline, Hector would obviously need to be expanded, and additional infrastructure would be needed... we already have a state owned bank, state owned mill and so on... why not a state owned airline, where we control how it's run??? If it was a state owned entity, it wouldn't have to pay any taxes and the profits could goto the state ensuring it's success. We've got over $1B in the bank, let's get it done!

Imagine the business possibilities of being able to eventually fly direct to almost any major city in the U.S. out of Fargo... Fargo would turn into the Hub and the big hubs that exist today would be our spokes...