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Bad news for Digikey

piguy101piguy101 Posts: 248
edited 2011-07-20 08:23 in General Discussion
According to this article from yahoo, Delta airlines plans to close 24 airports and one of the listed airports is Thief River Falls, Minnesota which is where Digikey is located. This could mean no air mail from Digikey and loss of business to Digikey.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/24-Small-Towns-May-Lose-Air-nytimes-3674165086.html?x=0&.v=

What are your opinions of this and do you think this will affect Digikey?

Comments

  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2011-07-19 18:17
    It could if they use Delta to transport their shipments. The airport is not closing. There is also a FedEx Feeder that operates out of that airport.
  • edited 2011-07-19 18:19
    piguy101 wrote: »
    According to this article from yahoo, Delta airlines plans to close 24 airports and one of the listed airports is Thief River Falls, Minnesota which is where Digikey is located. This could mean no air mail from Digikey and loss of business to Digikey.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/24-Small-Towns-May-Lose-Air-nytimes-3674165086.html?x=0&.v=

    What are your opinions of this and do you think this will affect Digikey?

    How far away is the next airport? Does Digikey have more than one location? I don't know but I think they would be more than one location. Delta may close the airport but that wouldn't keep someone else from leasing the airport? Would it?

    It just means someone would have to act as a courier to the next dropoff location and you might have to pay a little more for that kind of service or they could move or they could start another location to counter this.
  • piguy101piguy101 Posts: 248
    edited 2011-07-19 18:27
    @Chuckz
    I am almost certain Digikey only has that one location. But whatever happens, shipping from Digikey will most likely increase somewhat.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-07-19 20:25
    I don't see what this has to do with DigiKey shipping at all. Delta doesn't own the airport, so they can't close it. All they're doing is suspending commercial passenger flights there. This may inconvenience some DigiKey employees, but it certainly will not affect express shipping, which is handled by UPS and FedEx, who have their own planes.

    -Phil
  • Ken GraceyKen Gracey Posts: 7,401
    edited 2011-07-19 20:59
    Nah, no reason to worry. Delta doesn't control the airport and this is far from their hub, so they're hardly a player in this corner of USA.

    Northwest (Mesaba Airlines) flies to Thief River Falls from MSP, too.

    Many Digi-Key visitors fly to Grand Fork, North Dakota and drive an hour. You just go east for 30 minutes and turn left at the cemetery. Also served by Mesaba.

    Polaris is also next door to Digi-Key; you can trust market forces to ensure airline service to this little town with massive industry.

    We just booked a couple of tickets for Parallax to go to Digi-Key. It's truly the far reaches of northern USA and they've got the nicest people on the planet.

    Ken Gracey
  • bill190bill190 Posts: 769
    edited 2011-07-20 08:23
    There is a whole other "unseen world" of airlines for cargo transportation. The planes may fly in at night, unload/load, then leave. So you never see them. You will see these planes at larger airports like Los Angeles (LAX) as you taxi to the passenger terminal.
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