Kids The Hit On First Flight By Horizon

By 250 News

Seattle, Washington - Take a look around the cabin of the aircraft during Horizon Airlines inaugural flight  for  service between Prince George, and Seattle, and you see a lot of children.

There is, of course, your usual contingent of politicians on board the maiden flight, business men are working away on their laptops, and press people, travelwriters and reporters are recording  the event for posterity. But it is the children you notice. They are excited, and boystrous  and they all expect to be in Disneyland by bedtime.

Daily scheduled flights between Prince George, and Seattle, operated by Horizon Air, not only make it easier for businessmen to make contact with crucial markets and opportunities stateside. But also works for families looking to simplify holiday plans for trips to destinations like California’s Magic Kingdom.

Randal Heidt of Prince George packed his family of four on the plane today, saying that the plane out of Prince George makes the whole trip south easier on the kids and easier on the family. And he doesn’t cringe when the suggestion is made that he might now take his family to Disneyland next year as well.

“I’m going to go on all the rides today,” pipes up his five year old daughter Samantha when she realizes the conversation is about Disneyland. “Then we are going to meet the princesses!!

Halfway down the cabin, another group of four look like they are on the trip of their lives. Mom, Joey Anderson, says the quartet are, indeed, off to the Magic Kingdom. They left Ft. St. John yesterday, and Mom says they are very happy they made plans to fly from here. “This is saving us a lot of time, and a lot of money too with fewer meals, hotel stays and days on the road.

The President of Horizon, Don Rousso ,  was also smiling saying , who knows if it goes good we can have two flights a day.   

 But the daily service to Prince George from Seattle is expected to work the other way too.

One of the first passengers off the plane after it touched down on the tarmac at the, now, Prince George International Airport, was Dan Collins. He came here at the suggestion of his daughter who lives here in Prince George. He plans to do a little fishing while he is here, And who knows,” he says,,”If the fishing is good, we might have to think about coming back for the hunting. It’s a good way to get here from the States.

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