Originally Posted by
Awol57
I have been to the airport there a few times, I guess I was just playing a bit of "what if" as well.
Living in the NW I have a fair idea of the resources available and I just suspect it wouldn't be as straightforward as some people seem to think if it did all go pear shaped I guess was more my point. Sure if you have no options I'd be headed there but I can only presume at the time with the information they had they decided PH or somewhere further south was a better option was all.
An extra 359 in a town of about 2500 is a fair impost even with an airline potentially throwing money around.
The industry has diverted airliners into towns who's population numbers less than the passenger total of the a/c diverting.
Here's an aviation truth - being on the ground is better than wishing you were on the ground.