http://www.mercurynews.com/lifeandstyleheadlines/ci_6107231 Airport seeking more routes By Michael Martinez, Mercury News Article Launched: 06/10/2007 01:37:25 AM PDT San Jose travelers love New York. And London, Maui, Tokyo and Washington. They just can't get to those destinations as conveniently as they can flying from San Francisco. But officials at Mineta San Jose International Airport are hoping their customers will help them persuade airlines to start offering more service to some of their favorite cities. This month, the airport is posting an online survey on its Web site, www.flysanjose .com, asking fliers to identify cities they would like to see offered as non-stop destinations from San Jose. The survey also asks why travelers prefer using San Jose and how they rate their ability to reach desired destinations from San Jose, among other questions. "People don't have the selection and choices here" that they have from San Francisco, said Ed Nelson, the airport's director of air service development. "That's one of the things we're hoping to find that I can share with the airlines." Although the airport has added 11 flights since March, including Frontier Airlines' non-stop to Cabo San Lucas, in recent years it has suffered a loss of major routes to such cities as Tokyo, Paris, Taipei and Vancouver. In May, it was unable to convince MAXjet Airways, an all-business-class carrier, to begin a route to London's Stansted Airport; the airline chose Los Angeles instead. Airport officials hope survey results will show where South Bay travelers want to fly. "If our fliers want to go to Bismarck or London, we can find out," airport spokesman David Vossbrink said. "We have some assumptions where people in our region want to fly from San Jose, but this is an informal way to add substance to that." In the first two days of the survey, New York ranked No. 1, followed by London, Maui and Washington. JetBlue currently offers daily departures from San Jose to New York-JFK, and United flies to Washington-Dulles, but they lack the frequency of flights that travelers get from San Francisco. "If you go to New York, you have 19 different choices from San Francisco," Nelson said. "We have two. There are four airlines flying non-stop to New York from San Francisco. We have one. You can fly at all different times from San Francisco. We have two. "Is their market 10 times bigger than ours? Absolutely not." To respond to the survey, go to www.flysanjose.com and click on "Survey" on the upper-right corner of the home page. Contact Michael Martinez at mmartinez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or (408)920-5503. ___________________________________________________________________________________ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> If you wish to unsubscribe from the AIRLINE List, please send an E-mail to: "listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Within the body of the text, only write the following:"SIGNOFF AIRLINE".