Airports Keep Wyoming Connected
Published Dec 16, 2008
Wyoming is home to some three dozen airports, 10 that offer commercial service.
Talking about airports in Wyoming is like talking about rodeos in Texas: they’re all over the place.
More than three dozen airports cover the state, 10 of which offer commercial passenger service.
“That’s a large volume. When you consider there are only about 500,000 people in the state, to have 10 commercial airports is rather large,” says David Haring, manager of the Cheyenne Regional Airport and president of the Wyoming Airport Operators Association. “We’ve got commercial airports in all corners and in the center of the state.”
That spells ease of travel and the ability to move products for business. The state’s comprehensive air network makes Wyoming an ideal home base for distribution operations.
The state government has been generous in providing money to keep local airports in top form. Several years ago, the Air Service Enhancement Program was created to allocate $3 million to communities for air service system development.
“Wyoming is more supportive from a dollar perspective and a support perspective of aviation than almost any other state in the nation,” Haring says. “When you have that kind of support, it’s easy to be progressive when it comes to trying to develop aviation systems.”
Cheyenne is home to Great Lakes Airlines, a national commercial service provider that is currently expanding.
“When you have a company like that, that is well established and is relied upon really by the nation to provide air service to communities that are smaller,” says Haring, “to have them headquartered in the state of Wyoming is a tremendous benefit to us.”
Story by Michaela Jackson
Photo by Staff
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