CASPER, Wyo.-
Passengers who book flights at Natrona County International Airport to Denver will no longer run the risk of being left at the gate after United Airlines changes the type of airplane it uses there in June.
Airport manager Glenn Januska says United Airlines plans to replace the 30-passenger airplanes it now uses between Casper and Denver with larger, 37-seat airplanes on June 7.
With the old type of airplanes, Casper flights have sometimes been subject to weight restrictions, especially in warm weather.
Januska says passengers who had booked flights were sometimes been left behind to reduce weight. He says that with the new airplanes, it won’t be necessary to reduce the number of passengers.
Once United Airlines introduces the new planes, it intends to reduce its number of flights between Casper and Denver to from five to six daily.
Januska says that he thinks it will be a good deal for the airport to gain the reliability of the new planes and lose the weight restrictions even though the number of flights will go down.
