In these days of shrinking airline capacity, it is nice to have news of a new route opening. Naturally, it has to do with reaching a ski and snowboard area once only accessible by a 3 to 5 hour drive. Now a short hop from LA brings winter sports enthusiasts to one of America’s biggest resorts.
Mammoth Mountain is adding the new scheduled airline service just as the mountain received more that four feet of fresh snow that blanketed the resort. This has always been a perfect place for early season skiing and normally boasts one of the longest ski and snowboard seasons in the nation with trails open through the 4th of July.
Horizon Air’s inaugural daily service from LAX to Mammoth Mountain commenced yesterday, December 18. The flight marks the beginning of regular LAX-Mammoth air service throughout the winter. Daily flights are
scheduled from Dec. 18, 2008, through April 12, 2009.
The one-hour-and-five-minute flight departs Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) daily at 2:20 p.m. and arrives at Mammoth Yosemite Airport (MMH) at 3:25 p.m. The return flight leaves Mammoth at 4:05 p.m. and arrives at LAX at 5:10 p.m. The flight will also facilitate inbound travel from a wide variety of national and international airlines with service into LAX.
Charlie Leocha is the President of Travelers United. He has been working in Washington, DC, for the past 14 years with Congress, the Department of Transportation, and industry stakeholders on travel issues. He was the first consumer representative to the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protections appointed by the Secretary of Transportation from 2012 through 2018.
