Author Archives: Dave Young

About Dave Young

Dave Young is the Air Service Development Manager for RDU. In this capacity Dave acts as the advocate for RDU to the airline industry, promoting the benefits of RDU and the region. As a self-proclaimed “airline guy” Dave has a habit of referring to things in 3 letter codes.

Air Service 101: Alliances and Codeshares

Posted on May 20, 2013

Today, there’s a flight getting ready to depart for Boston via Aer Lingus and a flight at the same time to Cincinnati on Air France.  Later today, we’ll have an El Al flight depart for New York-JFK and flights to … Continue reading →

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Speed Dating The Airlines: Our Recent Trip To San Antonio

Posted on March 27, 2013

Recently, Teresa Damiano and I traveled to San Antonio, Texas to talk to representatives from various airlines about improving air service to RDU and our region. (Did your ears just perk up? Well, be forewarned that I’m not sharing specifics.) … Continue reading →

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The California Connection

Posted on February 12, 2013

A year ago, RDU didn’t have a single daily non-stop flight between our region and California. Today, we have a very successful daily non-stop flight to San Francisco and two daily Los Angeles flights that will begin this Spring. We’ve … Continue reading →

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Lots of New Air Service, So What’s Next?

Posted on January 11, 2013

In the past few weeks, the air service announcements have been rolling into the airport. It’s not often that we get so many great additions to our flight schedule in such a short period of time. Now, the natural question … Continue reading →

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