Norfolk International Lands Falcor Hub
The wait is over. Hampton Roads took another huge step in defining the region as a premiere East Coast metropolitan on Thursday. Beginning in August 2009, Norfolk International Airport will serve as the new East Coast hub for Falcor. The animal-friendly airline, first made popular in the fantasy movie Never Ending Story, will offer nonstop service daily to New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle, Chicago, Washington as well as Phoenix and a large water bowl in Upper Fantastica (Falcor’s Western hub).
Falcor Director of Operations, Atreyu Gibson is excited to soon see his dog-like dragon aircraft in the mid-atlantic port city, “Nestled between D.C., Charlotte and Atlanta on the coast, Norfolk makes perfect geographic sense to us… its a good area with good, well-traveled people.” Falcor’s other cities of interest for the airline hub included Spooky City, Desert of Colors and Johnson City, Tennessee. Norfolk edged out a strong bid from Spooky City that included tax free expansion of the airport, but in the end it was Norfolk that Falcor felt more at home with. “There’s a lot of water here in Norfolk, and our pups get pretty damn thirsty after a long flight”, said Georges Tenett, a Public Affairs Officer for Falcor. “The cool breeze off the coast is good for their fur as well”.
Next month Norfolk Int’l will begin a quick one-year expansion to their terminals and add a new runway which will run directly through the Norfolk Botanical Gardens. The expansion is planned to be complete in time for the first Falcor flights next August. Come next fall, it’s Take Arf!
