The salt lake express is super easy and picks you up at airport.
It most cetainly is! I priced it at $125.00 round trip. I'm keeping them in mind as Plan B. Plan C is rental car from SLC and driving if I absolutely must.
Don’t forget there’s a promo code, SLC-EKO that will save you a few dollars on the SLC Express.
As for Skywest (Delta), a couple things. Number 1 Wildfire and I had talked about this a few months ago. In January Elko Airport renewed Skywests contract for 2022, but then Skywest walked it back and said they would only do 6 months, so there might be some changes coming up there pretty soon. They also did a guaranteed revenue agreement with Skywest, I think it was $400,000 for the year, I would imagine it was prorated for the 6 month agreement.
Basically if Skywest does less than $400,000 in sales on tickets to/from Elko the city will reimburse the difference. I bring that up because that arrival into SLC is at a terrible time. You’d be looking at at least 9pm for a connecting flight, which mind you is 10pm Central and 11pm Eastern, so you’ll be on a red eye flight. This is unattractive for a lot of people so I would think that it will decrease bookings even further. HOWEVER, with that guaranteed revenue agreement all Skywest has to do is keep the service running, so there’s not much of an incentive for them to run a flight at a time that would maximize bookings.
I know Elko wants to ditch Skywest, but there aren’t exactly a lot of airlines itching to fly into Elko.
