Alternative Airlines loves innovative airlines and usually they come from the far corners of the earth, but sometimes  a special one comes along from a more mature market, such is Gulfstream International Airlines based in Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Just climbing out of a period of Chapter 11, backed by some ambitious venture capital and operating a fleet of 21 Gulfstream Beech 1900D turboprop aircraft, this is an airline that is on the up!

Why do we think that this airline is innovative ? Well it operates over 125 scheduled flights per day, serves nine destinations in Florida, 10 destinations in the Bahamas, five destinations from Cleveland, Ohio and seven destinations from Billings, Montana making it the 15th largest regional airline in the United States (July 2010) in terms of number of passengers flow, but you won't know its name because it operates under a principal code share and alliance agreement with the three mega-carriers Continental Airlines, United Airlines and Copa Airlines. This gives low marketing costs and a chance to focus on achieving the best economies of flying a single type aircraft fleet. It's niche and in today's airline market to survive you've got to either niche, networked or nationally funded to survive* so Gulfstream International gets top marks for being both niche and networked. Good Luck to the new management team ! (Ok there's a fourth which is BIG, that is VERY BIG, as in Ryanair... and even that opportunity may be limited in the future to being only the BIGGEST in any of one market!)

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