commercial flights into Cooma ?
News this week that massive Vail Resorts in USA(Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Park City & many more ski resorts) are buying Perisher, the biggest ski area in southern hemisphere for AUD$176.6 million from Packer.
Since Brindabella fell over in Dec 2013, there have been no commercial flights into Cooma(OOM).
At same time QF & VA have reduced weekend capacity into CBR.
So surely, new owners will be looking to make it easier for people to get to Perisher & not just talking about people from Sydney basin.
Australian ski resorts seem to have been suffering, while in New Zealand, especially to Queenstown, flights have been booming.
There is now a Perisher season pass for something like AUD$750 for an adult & less for youth & kids, which also includes unlimited skiing at all of their US resorts, except US holidays & limited to 10 days maximum at Vail/Beaver Creek.
There has been some talk of reviving flights into OOM from SYD & elsewhere.
Many years ago Air NSW(Ansett) used to fly regularly SYD/OOM/SYD using a 68 seater F28-4000 & think it was many times a day Fri-Sun in winter & at least daily rest of year. They also did a Sun service BNE/OOM/BNE in winter only using same aircraft.
Vail Resorts is so big, they underwrite flights into Vail airport & not talking small jets, but rather A319's & B752's, many times a day.
So surely, there must be a carrier who would want to operate flights into OOM, especially if Vail Resorts, were to underwrite the flights, evenif not completely.