The Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport

THE I THACA TOMPK INS REGIONAL A I RPORT For example, the baggage feeding machine was on the front side of the counter and not the back. New York is deeply invested in improving its terminals – LaGuardia, Rochester, Syracuse have already been completed.” Hall would also like to build more hangar space for the Airport’s general aviation aircraft as soon as the terminal project is complete. “We are also building a customs facility, and that will make us Ithaca Tompkins International Airport,” he says. “And that will be the next step to having more business-based aircraft. We just haven’t gotten there yet.” Another project on the drawing board at ITH is the establishment of a new flight academy. “That will be built next year, and, once again, if we hadn’t had the terminal project, we probably would have had the flight academy built at this point, but it had to be second to that huge project,” Hall acknowledges. “We’ve got the concept of what we want to do, and we have a site to build it. In order to have it located in the flight training neighborhood of the Airport, which is where it

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