While fuel sales at Yeager Airport’s general aviation area are down substantially from last year’s levels, private aircraft activity remains strong – especially compared with other areas of the nation harder hit by plant closings and slumping sales.
“We’re doing well,” Scott Miller, owner of Executive Air, the private aircraft concession at the Charleston airport, said [...]
BRANSON – The new airport here will provide another travel option for people living as far away as Fayetteville, airport officials claim.
Jeff Bourk, executive director of Branson Airport, said the airport, which opened May 11, also will result in more boardings and cheaper fares at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport.
But so far, executives at the regional [...]
Most airports require some form of commercial real estate, from hangars, to industrial product for maintenance, to offices that support the airport functions. Central Texas Airport, currently in the planning stages, will have its own version dubbed Green Corporate Centers, which, upon build-out, could encompass up to 6.5 million square feet of product eligible for [...]
Read more →House Republicans recently sought to block funding for the airport in the Pennsylvania hometown of Rep. John P. Murtha, complaining that the powerful Democrat has showered the modern but lightly used facility with wasted taxpayer dollars.
But the Murtha airport is one of many small-town airports — in districts represented by members from both parties — [...]
A longtime North San Diego County businessman said he’ll start a regional airline offering a total of six daily flights to Oakland, Phoenix and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, provided that authorities allow a 1,000-foot extension to the runway at McClellan-Palomar Airport.
The entrepreneur, Ted Vallas, said he plans to launch Carlsbad Palomar Airline with three to [...]
Dozens of municipal airports in Iowa have received millions of dollars in federal grants for upgrades and repairs, even though most are used primarily by private pilots and businesses, a Des Moines Register analysis has found.
Airports across the state have received more than $76.6 million in airport improvement grants since 2007 — about 42 percent [...]
Jet Linx Aviation, a private jet travel and aircraft management company, and CoGoJets, an online social networking website where members coordinate air travel and book a private jet together on a per-seat, pro rata basis, are partnering with Dallas businessmen to open a Dallas Love Field location in July 2009.
Jamie Walker, CEO of Omaha-based Jet [...]
By CHRISTINE NEGRONI
Branson, Mo., is remote and has a tiny year-round population. But it also has the kinds of outdoor activities and family-friendly theater productions that attracted eight and a half million visitors last year, earning the city the unofficial nickname “Vegas without the gambling.”
The Branson Airport will have ticket booths for downtown performances.
And it [...]
